diff --git a/copyparty/cfg.py b/copyparty/cfg.py
index d8f42a0e..9737f92b 100644
--- a/copyparty/cfg.py
+++ b/copyparty/cfg.py
@@ -190,6 +190,7 @@ flagcats = {
         "dvthumb": "disables video thumbnails",
         "dathumb": "disables audio thumbnails (spectrograms)",
         "dithumb": "disables image thumbnails",
+        "pngquant": "compress audio waveforms 33% better",
         "thsize": "thumbnail res; WxH",
         "crop": "center-cropping (y/n/fy/fn)",
         "th3x": "3x resolution (y/n/fy/fn)",
diff --git a/copyparty/th_srv.py b/copyparty/th_srv.py
index 3208ec12..c35010bb 100644
--- a/copyparty/th_srv.py
+++ b/copyparty/th_srv.py
@@ -593,6 +593,24 @@ class ThumbSrv(object):
         cmd += [fsenc(tpath)]
         self._run_ff(cmd, vn)
 
+        if "pngquant" in vn.flags:
+            wtpath = tpath + ".png"
+            cmd = [
+                b"pngquant",
+                b"--strip",
+                b"--nofs",
+                b"--output", fsenc(wtpath),
+                fsenc(tpath)
+            ]
+            ret = runcmd(cmd, timeout=vn.flags["convt"], nice=True, oom=400)[0]
+            if ret:
+                try:
+                    wunlink(self.log, wtpath,  vn.flags)
+                except:
+                    pass
+            else:
+                wrename(self.log, wtpath, tpath, vn.flags)
+
     def conv_spec(self, abspath: str, tpath: str, fmt: str, vn: VFS) -> None:
         ret, _ = ffprobe(abspath, int(vn.flags["convt"] / 2))
         if "ac" not in ret: