diff --git a/packages/mediacenter/xbmc/conf.d/xbmc b/packages/mediacenter/xbmc/conf.d/xbmc
index 5f2cd070c4..dcc5b9bf9b 100644
--- a/packages/mediacenter/xbmc/conf.d/xbmc
+++ b/packages/mediacenter/xbmc/conf.d/xbmc
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ export XBMC_HOME
 cache_xbmc () {
   progress "caching XBMC"
     mkdir -p /var/cache/bin
-    ionice -c 1 -n 0 cp -PR /usr/share/xbmc/xbmc.bin /var/cache/bin
+    $IONICE cp -PR /usr/share/xbmc/xbmc.bin /var/cache/bin
     touch /var/cache/xbmc.cache
 }