Hey Lens Studio Devs!

I've been working on creating more interactive audio experiences in my Lenses, specifically building a functional music player with a visual progress bar that the user can scrub.

My goal is the standard behavior:

User starts scrubbing the progress bar.

The UI updates to show the target timecode.

User releases the scrubber at a specific time (e.g., 1 minute 30 seconds).

Crucially: Audio playback resumes from that specific time (1:30).

However, I've hit a roadblock with the current AudioComponent scripting API. Looking at the documentation and experimenting extensively, it seems:

audioComponent.play(loops) only starts playback from the beginning (00:00).

audioComponent.pause() and audioComponent.resume() work perfectly for pausing/resuming, but they don't allow setting an arbitrary starting position.

audioComponent.stop() resets the playback position, so calling play() afterwards also restarts from the beginning.

This makes it impossible to implement true audio seeking/scrubbing using the standard AudioComponent. The best workaround currently seems to be restarting the track from the beginning when the user finishes scrubbing, which isn't the ideal user experience.

Feature Request:

Could the Lens Studio team please consider adding functionality to programmatically set the playback position? This could look like:

A new method: audioComponent.seek(timeInSeconds)

OR an optional offset parameter for the existing play method: audioComponent.play(loops, startTimeOffset)

Why this is needed:

Enables standard, expected UI interactions for audio (scrubbing, timelines).

Opens up possibilities for more complex interactive audio storytelling or sound design.

Aligns the AudioComponent API more closely with standard audio APIs found in other development environments.

I'm sure many other creators trying to build sophisticated audio experiences would benefit greatly from this!

What do you all think? Have others run into this limitation? Would a seek function be useful for your projects?

Thanks for reading and hopefully for considering this, Snap team!