diff --git a/headphones/db.py b/headphones/db.py
index 985f6b72..871b7c99 100644
--- a/headphones/db.py
+++ b/headphones/db.py
@@ -33,6 +33,9 @@ db_lock = threading.Lock()
 def dbFilename(filename="headphones.db"):
 
     return os.path.join(headphones.DATA_DIR, filename)
+    
+def getCacheSize():
+    return int(headphones.CACHE_SIZEMB)
 
 class DBConnection:
 
@@ -45,7 +48,7 @@ class DBConnection:
         #journal disabled since we never do rollbacks
         self.connection.execute("PRAGMA journal_mode = OFF")        
         #64mb of cache memory,probably need to make it user configurable
-        self.connection.execute("PRAGMA cache_size=-%s" % (headphones.CACHE_SIZEMB*1024))
+        self.connection.execute("PRAGMA cache_size=-%s" % (getCacheSize()*1024))
         self.connection.row_factory = sqlite3.Row
         
     def action(self, query, args=None):