How can I start playing a media at a given start position?

[cfoch]

Or even better... at a given state (volume, rate, paused/playing, currentTime, ...)

[jnarwold]

It looks as though there is a defaultCurrentTime prop on the <Player> component that allows for a number (seconds) to be passed in as the initial start time. Fair warning, it doesn't seem to play well if you're switching between audio files. For that, I had to pass in an onReady function and do something like this:

const onPlayerReady = ({seekTo}) => {
  if (id !== lastLoadedId) {
    seekTo(40) //initial start time here

    setLastLoadedId(id)
  }
}