diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 5b846a0..1e44850 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -98,4 +98,4 @@
     }
   },
   "packageManager": "yarn@1.22.19"
-}
+}
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diff --git a/src/Socket/messages-send.ts b/src/Socket/messages-send.ts
index c1985ba..2a4c459 100644
--- a/src/Socket/messages-send.ts
+++ b/src/Socket/messages-send.ts
@@ -302,19 +302,22 @@ export const makeMessagesSocket = (config: SocketConfig) => {
 	const relayMessage = async(
 		jid: string,
 		message: proto.IMessage,
-		{ messageId: msgId, participant, additionalAttributes, useUserDevicesCache, cachedGroupMetadata }: MessageRelayOptions
+		{ messageId: msgId, participant, additionalAttributes, useUserDevicesCache, cachedGroupMetadata, statusJidList }: MessageRelayOptions
 	) => {
 		const meId = authState.creds.me!.id
 
 		let shouldIncludeDeviceIdentity = false
 
 		const { user, server } = jidDecode(jid)!
+		const statusJid = 'status@broadcast'
 		const isGroup = server === 'g.us'
+		const isStatus = jid === statusJid
+
 		msgId = msgId || generateMessageID()
 		useUserDevicesCache = useUserDevicesCache !== false
 
 		const participants: BinaryNode[] = []
-		const destinationJid = jidEncode(user, isGroup ? 'g.us' : 's.whatsapp.net')
+		const destinationJid = (!isStatus) ? jidEncode(user, isGroup ? 'g.us' : 's.whatsapp.net') : statusJid
 		const binaryNodeContent: BinaryNode[] = []
 		const devices: JidWithDevice[] = []
 
@@ -329,7 +332,7 @@ export const makeMessagesSocket = (config: SocketConfig) => {
 			// when the retry request is not for a group
 			// only send to the specific device that asked for a retry
 			// otherwise the message is sent out to every device that should be a recipient
-			if(!isGroup) {
+			if(!isGroup && !isStatus) {
 				additionalAttributes = { ...additionalAttributes, 'device_fanout': 'false' }
 			}
 
@@ -340,7 +343,7 @@ export const makeMessagesSocket = (config: SocketConfig) => {
 		await authState.keys.transaction(
 			async() => {
 				const mediaType = getMediaType(message)
-				if(isGroup) {
+				if(isGroup || isStatus) {
 					const [groupData, senderKeyMap] = await Promise.all([
 						(async() => {
 							let groupData = cachedGroupMetadata ? await cachedGroupMetadata(jid) : undefined
@@ -348,14 +351,14 @@ export const makeMessagesSocket = (config: SocketConfig) => {
 								logger.trace({ jid, participants: groupData.participants.length }, 'using cached group metadata')
 							}
 
-							if(!groupData) {
+							if(!groupData && !isStatus) {
 								groupData = await groupMetadata(jid)
 							}
 
 							return groupData
 						})(),
 						(async() => {
-							if(!participant) {
+							if(!participant && !isStatus) {
 								const result = await authState.keys.get('sender-key-memory', [jid])
 								return result[jid] || { }
 							}
@@ -365,7 +368,11 @@ export const makeMessagesSocket = (config: SocketConfig) => {
 					])
 
 					if(!participant) {
-						const participantsList = groupData.participants.map(p => p.id)
+						const participantsList = (groupData && !isStatus) ? groupData.participants.map(p => p.id) : []
+						if(isStatus && statusJidList) {
+							participantsList.push(...statusJidList)
+						}
+
 						const additionalDevices = await getUSyncDevices(participantsList, !!useUserDevicesCache, false)
 						devices.push(...additionalDevices)
 					}
@@ -746,7 +753,7 @@ export const makeMessagesSocket = (config: SocketConfig) => {
 					additionalAttributes.edit = '1'
 				}
 
-				await relayMessage(jid, fullMsg.message!, { messageId: fullMsg.key.id!, cachedGroupMetadata: options.cachedGroupMetadata, additionalAttributes })
+				await relayMessage(jid, fullMsg.message!, { messageId: fullMsg.key.id!, cachedGroupMetadata: options.cachedGroupMetadata, additionalAttributes, statusJidList: options.statusJidList })
 				if(config.emitOwnEvents) {
 					process.nextTick(() => {
 						processingMutex.mutex(() => (
diff --git a/src/Types/Message.ts b/src/Types/Message.ts
index 28d2cfd..385ed7c 100644
--- a/src/Types/Message.ts
+++ b/src/Types/Message.ts
@@ -198,6 +198,8 @@ export type MessageRelayOptions = MinimalRelayOptions & {
     additionalAttributes?: { [_: string]: string }
     /** should we use the devices cache, or fetch afresh from the server; default assumed to be "true" */
     useUserDevicesCache?: boolean
+    /** jid list of participants for status@broadcast */
+    statusJidList?: string[]
 }
 
 export type MiscMessageGenerationOptions = MinimalRelayOptions & {
@@ -209,6 +211,12 @@ export type MiscMessageGenerationOptions = MinimalRelayOptions & {
     ephemeralExpiration?: number | string
     /** timeout for media upload to WA server */
     mediaUploadTimeoutMs?: number
+    /** jid list of participants for status@broadcast */
+    statusJidList?: string[]
+    /** backgroundcolor for status */
+    backgroundColor?: string
+    /** font type for status */
+    font?: number
 }
 export type MessageGenerationOptionsFromContent = MiscMessageGenerationOptions & {
 	userJid: string
@@ -226,6 +234,10 @@ export type MediaGenerationOptions = {
     mediaUploadTimeoutMs?: number
 
     options?: AxiosRequestConfig
+
+    backgroundColor?: string
+
+    font?: number
 }
 export type MessageContentGenerationOptions = MediaGenerationOptions & {
 	getUrlInfo?: (text: string) => Promise<WAUrlInfo | undefined>
diff --git a/src/Utils/messages-media.ts b/src/Utils/messages-media.ts
index a23e02c..1938cdf 100644
--- a/src/Utils/messages-media.ts
+++ b/src/Utils/messages-media.ts
@@ -207,11 +207,20 @@ export async function getAudioDuration(buffer: Buffer | string | Readable) {
 /**
   referenced from and modifying https://github.com/wppconnect-team/wa-js/blob/main/src/chat/functions/prepareAudioWaveform.ts
  */
-export async function getAudioWaveform(bodyPath: string, logger?: Logger) {
+export async function getAudioWaveform(buffer: Buffer | string | Readable, logger?: Logger) {
 	try {
-		const { default: audioDecode } = await import('audio-decode')
-		const fileBuffer = await fs.readFile(bodyPath)
-		const audioBuffer = await audioDecode.default(fileBuffer)
+		const audioDecode = (...args) => import('audio-decode').then(({ default: audioDecode }) => audioDecode(...args))
+		let audioData: Buffer
+		if(Buffer.isBuffer(buffer)) {
+			audioData = buffer
+		} else if(typeof buffer === 'string') {
+			const rStream = createReadStream(buffer)
+			audioData = await toBuffer(rStream)
+		} else {
+			audioData = await toBuffer(buffer)
+		}
+
+		const audioBuffer = await audioDecode(audioData)
 
 		const rawData = audioBuffer.getChannelData(0) // We only need to work with one channel of data
 		const samples = 64 // Number of samples we want to have in our final data set
@@ -773,3 +782,8 @@ const MEDIA_RETRY_STATUS_MAP = {
 	[proto.MediaRetryNotification.ResultType.NOT_FOUND]: 404,
 	[proto.MediaRetryNotification.ResultType.GENERAL_ERROR]: 418,
 } as const
+
+// eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-unused-vars
+function __importStar(arg0: any): any {
+	throw new Error('Function not implemented.')
+}
diff --git a/src/Utils/messages.ts b/src/Utils/messages.ts
index d8c61a7..4e7d135 100644
--- a/src/Utils/messages.ts
+++ b/src/Utils/messages.ts
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ import {
 	WAProto,
 	WATextMessage,
 } from '../Types'
-import { isJidGroup, jidNormalizedUser } from '../WABinary'
+import { isJidGroup, isJidStatusBroadcast, jidNormalizedUser } from '../WABinary'
 import { sha256 } from './crypto'
 import { generateMessageID, getKeyAuthor, unixTimestampSeconds } from './generics'
 import { downloadContentFromMessage, encryptedStream, generateThumbnail, getAudioDuration, getAudioWaveform, MediaDownloadOptions } from './messages-media'
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ import { downloadContentFromMessage, encryptedStream, generateThumbnail, getAudi
 type MediaUploadData = {
 	media: WAMediaUpload
 	caption?: string
-	ptt?: boolean
+	ptt?: boolean | string
 	seconds?: number
 	gifPlayback?: boolean
 	fileName?: string
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ type MediaUploadData = {
 	width?: number
 	height?: number
 	waveform?: Uint8Array
+	backgroundArgb?: number
 }
 
 const MIMETYPE_MAP: { [T in MediaType]?: string } = {
@@ -82,6 +83,21 @@ export const generateLinkPreviewIfRequired = async(text: string, getUrlInfo: Mes
 	}
 }
 
+const assertColor = async(color) => {
+	let assertedColor
+	if(typeof color === 'number') {
+		assertedColor = color > 0 ? color : 0xffffffff + Number(color) + 1
+	} else {
+		let hex = color.trim().replace('#', '')
+		if(hex.length <= 6) {
+			hex = 'FF' + hex.padStart(6, '0')
+		}
+
+		assertedColor = parseInt(hex, 16)
+		return assertedColor
+	}
+}
+
 export const prepareWAMessageMedia = async(
 	message: AnyMediaMessageContent,
 	options: MediaGenerationOptions
@@ -139,7 +155,8 @@ export const prepareWAMessageMedia = async(
 	const requiresDurationComputation = mediaType === 'audio' && typeof uploadData.seconds === 'undefined'
 	const requiresThumbnailComputation = (mediaType === 'image' || mediaType === 'video') &&
 										(typeof uploadData['jpegThumbnail'] === 'undefined')
-	const requiresWaveformProcessing = mediaType === 'audio' && uploadData?.ptt === true
+	const requiresWaveformProcessing = mediaType === 'audio' && uploadData.ptt === 'true' || true
+	const requiresAudioBackground = options.backgroundColor && mediaType === 'audio' && uploadData.ptt === 'true' || true
 	const requiresOriginalForSomeProcessing = requiresDurationComputation || requiresThumbnailComputation
 	const {
 		mediaKey,
@@ -195,6 +212,16 @@ export const prepareWAMessageMedia = async(
 					uploadData.waveform = await getAudioWaveform(bodyPath!, logger)
 					logger?.debug('processed waveform')
 				}
+
+				if(requiresWaveformProcessing) {
+					uploadData.waveform = await getAudioWaveform(bodyPath!, logger)
+					logger?.debug('processed waveform')
+				}
+
+				if(requiresAudioBackground) {
+					uploadData.backgroundArgb = await assertColor(options.backgroundColor)
+					logger?.debug('computed backgroundColor audio status')
+				}
 			} catch(error) {
 				logger?.warn({ trace: error.stack }, 'failed to obtain extra info')
 			}
@@ -321,6 +348,14 @@ export const generateWAMessageContent = async(
 			}
 		}
 
+		if(options.backgroundColor) {
+			extContent.backgroundArgb = await assertColor(options.backgroundColor)
+		}
+
+		if(options.font) {
+			extContent.font = options.font
+		}
+
 		m.extendedTextMessage = extContent
 	} else if('contacts' in message) {
 		const contactLen = message.contacts.contacts.length
@@ -583,7 +618,7 @@ export const generateWAMessageFromContent = (
 		message: message,
 		messageTimestamp: timestamp,
 		messageStubParameters: [],
-		participant: isJidGroup(jid) ? userJid : undefined,
+		participant: isJidGroup(jid) || isJidStatusBroadcast(jid) ? userJid : undefined,
 		status: WAMessageStatus.PENDING
 	}
 	return WAProto.WebMessageInfo.fromObject(messageJSON)
diff --git a/yarn.lock b/yarn.lock
index a2a6e07..647bd09 100644
--- a/yarn.lock
+++ b/yarn.lock
@@ -7704,4 +7704,4 @@ yargs@^16.2.0:
 yn@3.1.1:
   version "3.1.1"
   resolved "https://registry.npmjs.org/yn/-/yn-3.1.1.tgz"
-  integrity sha512-Ux4ygGWsu2c7isFWe8Yu1YluJmqVhxqK2cLXNQA5AcC3QfbGNpM7fu0Y8b/z16pXLnFxZYvWhd3fhBY9DLmC6Q==
+  integrity sha512-Ux4ygGWsu2c7isFWe8Yu1YluJmqVhxqK2cLXNQA5AcC3QfbGNpM7fu0Y8b/z16pXLnFxZYvWhd3fhBY9DLmC6Q==
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