diff --git a/compressor/base.py b/compressor/base.py
index 25f35f2..527734d 100644
--- a/compressor/base.py
+++ b/compressor/base.py
@@ -2,12 +2,13 @@ from __future__ import with_statement
 import os
 import codecs
 
+from django.conf import settings
 from django.core.files.base import ContentFile
 from django.template.loader import render_to_string
 from django.utils.encoding import smart_unicode
 
 from compressor.cache import get_hexdigest, get_mtime
-from compressor.conf import settings
+
 from compressor.exceptions import CompressorError, UncompressableFileError
 from compressor.filters import CompilerFilter
 from compressor.storage import default_storage
diff --git a/compressor/cache.py b/compressor/cache.py
index 5f45506..3810d64 100644
--- a/compressor/cache.py
+++ b/compressor/cache.py
@@ -2,12 +2,12 @@ import os
 import socket
 import time
 
+from django.conf import settings
 from django.core.cache import get_cache
 from django.utils.encoding import smart_str
 from django.utils.hashcompat import md5_constructor
 from django.utils.importlib import import_module
 
-from compressor.conf import settings
 from compressor.utils import get_mod_func
 
 
diff --git a/compressor/css.py b/compressor/css.py
index 260bae2..d7b2849 100644
--- a/compressor/css.py
+++ b/compressor/css.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-from compressor.conf import settings
+from django.conf import settings
+
 from compressor.base import Compressor, SOURCE_HUNK, SOURCE_FILE
 from compressor.exceptions import UncompressableFileError
 
diff --git a/compressor/filters/base.py b/compressor/filters/base.py
index 51c7940..4ec476c 100644
--- a/compressor/filters/base.py
+++ b/compressor/filters/base.py
@@ -3,11 +3,11 @@ import os
 import logging
 import subprocess
 import tempfile
+from django.conf import settings
 from django.core.exceptions import ImproperlyConfigured
 from django.core.files.temp import NamedTemporaryFile
 from django.utils.importlib import import_module
 
-from compressor.conf import settings
 from compressor.exceptions import FilterError
 from compressor.utils import get_mod_func
 from compressor.utils.stringformat import FormattableString as fstr
diff --git a/compressor/filters/closure.py b/compressor/filters/closure.py
index d229bcb..e0ee65a 100644
--- a/compressor/filters/closure.py
+++ b/compressor/filters/closure.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-from compressor.conf import settings
+from django.conf import settings
+
 from compressor.filters import CompilerFilter
 
 
diff --git a/compressor/filters/css_default.py b/compressor/filters/css_default.py
index 6f2ffb9..c77cfb9 100644
--- a/compressor/filters/css_default.py
+++ b/compressor/filters/css_default.py
@@ -2,8 +2,9 @@ import os
 import re
 import posixpath
 
+from django.conf import settings
+
 from compressor.cache import get_hexdigest, get_hashed_mtime
-from compressor.conf import settings
 from compressor.filters import FilterBase
 from compressor.utils import staticfiles
 
diff --git a/compressor/filters/csstidy.py b/compressor/filters/csstidy.py
index 4b7e4c7..5ab0d9b 100644
--- a/compressor/filters/csstidy.py
+++ b/compressor/filters/csstidy.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-from compressor.conf import settings
+from django.conf import settings
+
 from compressor.filters import CompilerFilter
 
 
diff --git a/compressor/filters/datauri.py b/compressor/filters/datauri.py
index 9425d72..ca6f706 100644
--- a/compressor/filters/datauri.py
+++ b/compressor/filters/datauri.py
@@ -3,7 +3,8 @@ import re
 import mimetypes
 from base64 import b64encode
 
-from compressor.conf import settings
+from django.conf import settings
+
 from compressor.filters import FilterBase
 
 
diff --git a/compressor/filters/yui.py b/compressor/filters/yui.py
index 60fd1f7..cf34099 100644
--- a/compressor/filters/yui.py
+++ b/compressor/filters/yui.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-from compressor.conf import settings
+from django.conf import settings
+
 from compressor.filters import CompilerFilter
 
 
diff --git a/compressor/js.py b/compressor/js.py
index ad5c8b1..4ad5e84 100644
--- a/compressor/js.py
+++ b/compressor/js.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-from compressor.conf import settings
+from django.conf import settings
+
 from compressor.base import Compressor, SOURCE_HUNK, SOURCE_FILE
 from compressor.exceptions import UncompressableFileError
 
diff --git a/compressor/management/commands/compress.py b/compressor/management/commands/compress.py
index 86e27e6..552809e 100644
--- a/compressor/management/commands/compress.py
+++ b/compressor/management/commands/compress.py
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ try:
 except ImportError:
     from StringIO import StringIO
 
+from django.conf import settings
 from django.core.management.base import  NoArgsCommand, CommandError
 from django.template import Context, Template, TemplateDoesNotExist, TemplateSyntaxError
 from django.utils.datastructures import SortedDict
@@ -22,7 +23,6 @@ except ImportError:
     CachedLoader = None
 
 from compressor.cache import cache, get_offline_cachekey
-from compressor.conf import settings
 from compressor.exceptions import OfflineGenerationError
 from compressor.templatetags.compress import CompressorNode
 from compressor.utils import walk, any
diff --git a/compressor/management/commands/mtime_cache.py b/compressor/management/commands/mtime_cache.py
index 88deab0..e9d80b2 100644
--- a/compressor/management/commands/mtime_cache.py
+++ b/compressor/management/commands/mtime_cache.py
@@ -2,10 +2,10 @@ import fnmatch
 import os
 from optparse import make_option
 
+from django.conf import settings
 from django.core.management.base import NoArgsCommand, CommandError
 
 from compressor.cache import cache, get_mtime, get_mtime_cachekey
-from compressor.conf import settings
 from compressor.utils import walk
 
 
diff --git a/compressor/conf.py b/compressor/models.py
similarity index 82%
rename from compressor/conf.py
rename to compressor/models.py
index 2011531..ee1b9be 100644
--- a/compressor/conf.py
+++ b/compressor/models.py
@@ -1,11 +1,12 @@
 import os
 from django import VERSION as DJANGO_VERSION
-from django.conf import settings as global_settings
+from django.conf import settings
 from django.core.exceptions import ImproperlyConfigured
 
-from compressor.utils.settings import AppSettings
+from appconf import AppConf
 
-class CompressorSettings(AppSettings):
+
+class CompressorConf(AppConf):
     # Main switch
     ENABLED = False
     # Allows changing verbosity from the settings.
@@ -60,14 +61,17 @@ class CompressorSettings(AppSettings):
     # The context to be used when compressing the files "offline"
     OFFLINE_CONTEXT = {}
 
+    class Meta:
+        prefix = 'compress'
+
     def configure_enabled(self, value):
-        return value or not global_settings.DEBUG
+        return value or not settings.DEBUG
 
     def configure_root(self, value):
         if value is None:
-            value = getattr(global_settings, 'STATIC_ROOT', None)
+            value = getattr(settings, 'STATIC_ROOT', None)
             if not value:
-                value = global_settings.MEDIA_ROOT
+                value = settings.MEDIA_ROOT
         if not value:
             raise ImproperlyConfigured(
                 "The COMPRESS_ROOT setting must be set.")
@@ -76,9 +80,9 @@ class CompressorSettings(AppSettings):
     def configure_url(self, value):
         # Uses Django 1.3's STATIC_URL by default or falls back to MEDIA_URL
         if value is None:
-            value = getattr(global_settings, "STATIC_URL", None)
+            value = getattr(settings, "STATIC_URL", None)
             if not value:
-                value = global_settings.MEDIA_URL
+                value = settings.MEDIA_URL
         if not value.endswith("/"):
             raise ImproperlyConfigured("The URL settings (e.g. COMPRESS_URL) "
                                        "must have a trailing slash.")
@@ -87,11 +91,11 @@ class CompressorSettings(AppSettings):
     def configure_cache_backend(self, value):
         if value is None:
             # If we are on Django 1.3 AND using the new CACHES setting...
-            if DJANGO_VERSION[:2] >= (1, 3) and hasattr(global_settings, "CACHES"):
+            if DJANGO_VERSION[:2] >= (1, 3) and hasattr(settings, "CACHES"):
                 value = "default"
             else:
                 # falling back to the old CACHE_BACKEND setting
-                value = getattr(global_settings, "CACHE_BACKEND", None)
+                value = getattr(settings, "CACHE_BACKEND", None)
                 if not value:
                     raise ImproperlyConfigured(
                         "Please specify a cache backend in your settings.")
@@ -100,11 +104,11 @@ class CompressorSettings(AppSettings):
     def configure_offline_context(self, value):
         if not value:
             value = {
-                "MEDIA_URL": global_settings.MEDIA_URL,
+                "MEDIA_URL": settings.MEDIA_URL,
             }
             # Adds the 1.3 STATIC_URL setting to the context if available
-            if getattr(global_settings, "STATIC_URL", None):
-                value["STATIC_URL"] = global_settings.STATIC_URL
+            if getattr(settings, "STATIC_URL", None):
+                value["STATIC_URL"] = settings.STATIC_URL
         return value
 
     def configure_precompilers(self, value):
@@ -112,5 +116,3 @@ class CompressorSettings(AppSettings):
             raise ImproperlyConfigured("The COMPRESS_PRECOMPILERS setting "
                 "must be a list or tuple. Check for missing commas.")
         return value
-
-settings = CompressorSettings(prefix="COMPRESS")
diff --git a/compressor/storage.py b/compressor/storage.py
index a8cfac1..5d895bb 100644
--- a/compressor/storage.py
+++ b/compressor/storage.py
@@ -2,11 +2,10 @@ import gzip
 from os import path
 from datetime import datetime
 
+from django.conf import settings
 from django.core.files.storage import FileSystemStorage, get_storage_class
 from django.utils.functional import LazyObject
 
-from compressor.conf import settings
-
 
 class CompressorFileStorage(FileSystemStorage):
     """
diff --git a/compressor/templatetags/compress.py b/compressor/templatetags/compress.py
index 8e8af84..e84e8c9 100644
--- a/compressor/templatetags/compress.py
+++ b/compressor/templatetags/compress.py
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 from django import template
+from django.conf import settings
 from django.core.exceptions import ImproperlyConfigured
 
 from compressor.cache import (cache, cache_get, cache_set,
                               get_offline_cachekey, get_templatetag_cachekey)
-from compressor.conf import settings
 from compressor.utils import get_class
 
 register = template.Library()
diff --git a/compressor/utils/settings.py b/compressor/utils/settings.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 736225c..0000000
--- a/compressor/utils/settings.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,107 +0,0 @@
-from inspect import getmembers
-from django.conf import settings
-
-class AppSettings(object):
-    """
-    An app setting object to be used for handling app setting defaults
-    gracefully and providing a nice API for them. Say you have an app
-    called ``myapp`` and want to define a few defaults, and refer to the
-    defaults easily in the apps code. Add a ``settings.py`` to your app::
-
-        from path.to.utils import AppSettings
-
-        class MyAppSettings(AppSettings):
-            SETTING_1 = "one"
-            SETTING_2 = (
-                "two",
-            )
-
-    Then initialize the setting with the correct prefix in the location of
-    of your choice, e.g. ``conf.py`` of the app module::
-
-        settings = MyAppSettings(prefix="MYAPP")
-
-    The ``MyAppSettings`` instance will automatically look at Django's
-    global setting to determine each of the settings and respect the
-    provided ``prefix``. E.g. adding this to your site's ``settings.py``
-    will set the ``SETTING_1`` setting accordingly::
-
-        MYAPP_SETTING_1 = "uno"
-
-    Usage
-    -----
-
-    Instead of using ``from django.conf import settings`` as you would
-    usually do, you can switch to using your apps own settings module
-    to access the app settings::
-
-        from myapp.conf import settings
-
-        print myapp_settings.MYAPP_SETTING_1
-
-    ``AppSettings`` instances also work as pass-throughs for other
-    global settings that aren't related to the app. For example the
-    following code is perfectly valid::
-
-        from myapp.conf import settings
-
-        if "myapp" in settings.INSTALLED_APPS:
-            print "yay, myapp is installed!"
-
-    Custom handling
-    ---------------
-
-    Each of the settings can be individually configured with callbacks.
-    For example, in case a value of a setting depends on other settings
-    or other dependencies. The following example sets one setting to a
-    different value depending on a global setting::
-
-        from django.conf import settings
-
-        class MyCustomAppSettings(AppSettings):
-            ENABLED = True
-
-            def configure_enabled(self, value):
-                return value and not self.DEBUG
-
-        custom_settings = MyCustomAppSettings("MYAPP")
-
-    The value of ``custom_settings.MYAPP_ENABLED`` will vary depending on the
-    value of the global ``DEBUG`` setting.
-
-    Each of the app settings can be customized by providing
-    a method ``configure_<lower_setting_name>`` that takes the default
-    value as defined in the class attributes as the only parameter.
-    The method needs to return the value to be use for the setting in
-    question.
-    """
-    def __dir__(self):
-        return sorted(list(set(self.__dict__.keys() + dir(settings))))
-
-    __members__ = lambda self: self.__dir__()
-
-    def __getattr__(self, name):
-        if name.startswith(self._prefix):
-            raise AttributeError("%r object has no attribute %r" %
-                                 (self.__class__.__name__, name))
-        return getattr(settings, name)
-
-    def __setattr__(self, name, value):
-        super(AppSettings, self).__setattr__(name, value)
-        if name in dir(settings):
-            setattr(settings, name, value)
-
-    def __init__(self, prefix):
-        super(AppSettings, self).__setattr__('_prefix', prefix)
-        for name, value in filter(self.issetting, getmembers(self.__class__)):
-            prefixed_name = "%s_%s" % (prefix.upper(), name.upper())
-            value = getattr(settings, prefixed_name, value)
-            callback = getattr(self, "configure_%s" % name.lower(), None)
-            if callable(callback):
-                value = callback(value)
-            delattr(self.__class__, name)
-            setattr(self, prefixed_name, value)
-
-    def issetting(self, (name, value)):
-        return name == name.upper()
-
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index c343fd4..d23665c 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -121,4 +121,7 @@ setup(
         'Topic :: Internet :: WWW/HTTP',
     ],
     zip_safe = False,
+    install_requires=[
+        'django-appconf >= 0.4',
+    ],
 )
diff --git a/tests/settings.py b/tests/settings.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e3c819b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/settings.py
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+import os
+
+TEST_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
+
+COMPRESS_CACHE_BACKEND = 'locmem://'
+
+DATABASE_ENGINE = 'sqlite3'
+
+INSTALLED_APPS = [
+    'django.contrib.contenttypes',
+    'django.contrib.sites',
+    'django.contrib.auth',
+    'django.contrib.admin',
+    'compressor',
+    'tests',
+]
+
+MEDIA_URL = '/media/'
+
+MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(TEST_DIR, 'media')
+
+TEMPLATE_DIRS = (
+    os.path.join(TEST_DIR, 'templates'),
+)
diff --git a/tests/tests/base.py b/tests/tests/base.py
index 8930b2f..228d6f9 100644
--- a/tests/tests/base.py
+++ b/tests/tests/base.py
@@ -4,12 +4,11 @@ import re
 
 from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
 
+from django.conf import settings
 from django.core.cache.backends import locmem
 from django.test import TestCase
 
 from compressor.base import SOURCE_HUNK, SOURCE_FILE
-from compressor.cache import get_hexdigest
-from compressor.conf import settings
 from compressor.css import CssCompressor
 from compressor.js import JsCompressor
 
@@ -22,6 +21,7 @@ def css_tag(href, **kwargs):
 
 test_dir = os.path.abspath(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), '..'))
 
+
 class CompressorTestCase(TestCase):
 
     def setUp(self):
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ class CompressorTestCase(TestCase):
     def test_js_split(self):
         out = [
             (SOURCE_FILE, os.path.join(settings.COMPRESS_ROOT, u'js/one.js'), u'js/one.js', '<script src="/media/js/one.js" type="text/javascript"></script>'),
-            (SOURCE_HUNK, u'obj.value = "value";', None, '<script type="text/javascript">obj.value = "value";</script>')
+            (SOURCE_HUNK, u'obj.value = "value";', None, '<script type="text/javascript">obj.value = "value";</script>'),
         ]
         split = self.js_node.split_contents()
         split = [(x[0], x[1], x[2], self.js_node.parser.elem_str(x[3])) for x in split]
@@ -127,7 +127,6 @@ class CompressorTestCase(TestCase):
             settings.COMPRESS_OUTPUT_DIR = old_output_dir
 
 
-
 class CssMediaTestCase(TestCase):
     def setUp(self):
         self.css = """\
@@ -151,8 +150,6 @@ class CssMediaTestCase(TestCase):
         self.assertEqual(media, [l.get('media', None) for l in links])
 
 
-
-
 class VerboseTestCase(CompressorTestCase):
 
     def setUp(self):
@@ -165,5 +162,3 @@ class CacheBackendTestCase(CompressorTestCase):
     def test_correct_backend(self):
         from compressor.cache import cache
         self.assertEqual(cache.__class__, locmem.CacheClass)
-
-
diff --git a/tests/tests/filters.py b/tests/tests/filters.py
index f6cf287..5ef0644 100644
--- a/tests/tests/filters.py
+++ b/tests/tests/filters.py
@@ -3,10 +3,10 @@ import os
 import sys
 from unittest2 import skipIf
 
+from django.conf import settings
 from django.test import TestCase
 
 from compressor.cache import get_hashed_mtime
-from compressor.conf import settings
 from compressor.css import CssCompressor
 from compressor.utils import find_command
 from compressor.filters.base import CompilerFilter
diff --git a/tests/tests/offline.py b/tests/tests/offline.py
index e347c9a..3fc642c 100644
--- a/tests/tests/offline.py
+++ b/tests/tests/offline.py
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 from __future__ import with_statement
 import os
 
+from django.conf import settings
 from django.template import Template, Context
 from django.test import TestCase
 
-from compressor.conf import settings
 from compressor.management.commands.compress import Command as CompressCommand
 
 from .base import test_dir, css_tag
diff --git a/tests/tests/parsers.py b/tests/tests/parsers.py
index e1e4dce..e76a447 100644
--- a/tests/tests/parsers.py
+++ b/tests/tests/parsers.py
@@ -2,8 +2,6 @@ from __future__ import with_statement
 import os
 from unittest2 import skipIf
 
-from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
-
 try:
     import lxml
 except ImportError:
@@ -20,7 +18,8 @@ except ImportError:
     BeautifulSoup = None
 
 
-from compressor.conf import settings
+from django.conf import settings
+
 from compressor.base import SOURCE_HUNK, SOURCE_FILE
 
 from .base import CompressorTestCase
diff --git a/tests/tests/storages.py b/tests/tests/storages.py
index 7311bae..d7dae0a 100644
--- a/tests/tests/storages.py
+++ b/tests/tests/storages.py
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 from __future__ import with_statement
 
+from django.conf import settings
 from django.core.files.storage import get_storage_class
 from django.test import TestCase
 
 from compressor import base
-from compressor.conf import settings
 
 from .base import css_tag
 from .templatetags import render
diff --git a/tests/tests/templatetags.py b/tests/tests/templatetags.py
index 18d242a..7b3fd5d 100644
--- a/tests/tests/templatetags.py
+++ b/tests/tests/templatetags.py
@@ -1,10 +1,9 @@
 from __future__ import with_statement
 
+from django.conf import settings
 from django.template import Template, Context, TemplateSyntaxError
 from django.test import TestCase
 
-from compressor.conf import settings
-
 from .base import css_tag
 
 
diff --git a/tests/tox.ini b/tests/tox.ini
index f235565..41fc7f3 100644
--- a/tests/tox.ini
+++ b/tests/tox.ini
@@ -1,12 +1,18 @@
 [tox]
 setupdir = ..
 distribute = false
-downloadcache = {toxinidir}/_download/
 
 [testenv]
 commands =
-    {envpython} {toxinidir}/runtests.py []
-    coverage html -d {envtmpdir}/coverage
+    {envbindir}/coverage erase
+    {envbindir}/coverage run --branch --include=*compressor* --omit=*test*,*rjsmin*,*cssmin*,*stringformat*,*models* {envbindir}/django-admin.py test {posargs:tests} --settings=tests.settings
+    {envbindir}/coverage report
+    {envbindir}/coverage html -d {envtmpdir}
+    echo "Type the following to open the coverage report: python -m webbrowser -t file://{envtmpdir}/index.html"
+setenv =
+    PYTHONPATH = {toxinidir}/..
+downloadcache = {toxworkdir}/_download/
+
 
 [testenv:docs]
 changedir = ../docs
@@ -20,7 +26,7 @@ commands =
 basepython = python2.5
 deps =
     unittest2
-    BeautifulSoup
+    BeautifulSoup==3.2.0
     html5lib
     coverage
     django==1.2.5
@@ -29,7 +35,7 @@ deps =
 basepython = python2.6
 deps =
     unittest2
-    BeautifulSoup
+    BeautifulSoup==3.2.0
     html5lib
     coverage
     django==1.2.5
@@ -38,7 +44,7 @@ deps =
 basepython = python2.7
 deps =
     unittest2
-    BeautifulSoup
+    BeautifulSoup==3.2.0
     html5lib
     coverage
     django==1.2.5
@@ -48,7 +54,7 @@ deps =
 basepython = python2.5
 deps =
     unittest2
-    BeautifulSoup
+    BeautifulSoup==3.2.0
     html5lib
     coverage
     django==1.3
@@ -57,7 +63,7 @@ deps =
 basepython = python2.6
 deps =
     unittest2
-    BeautifulSoup
+    BeautifulSoup==3.2.0
     html5lib
     coverage
     django==1.3
@@ -66,7 +72,7 @@ deps =
 basepython = python2.7
 deps =
     unittest2
-    BeautifulSoup
+    BeautifulSoup==3.2.0
     html5lib
     coverage
     django==1.3