Check out React Native Sound - a cross platform component for accessing device audio controls.

You can use it like so:

const Sound = require('react-native-sound')

let hello = new Sound('hello.mp3', Sound.MAIN_BUNDLE, (error) => {
  if (error) {
    console.log(error)
  }
})

hello.play((success) => {
  if (!success) {
    console.log('Sound did not play')
  }
})

This will preload the sound and when you press the play button it will play it.

export default class MovieList extends Component {
    componentDidMount(){
      this.hello = new Sound('whoosh.mp3', Sound.MAIN_BUNDLE, (error) => {
        if (error) {
          console.log('failed to load the sound', error);
          return;
        }
      });
    }
    
    
    handlePress() {
      this.hello.play((success) => {
        if (!success) {
          console.log('Sound did not play')
        }
      })
    }

    render() {
        const { movie } = this.props
        return (
            <TouchableOpacity onPress={this.handlePress.bind(this)}>
                <View>
                      <Text>Start</Text>
                </View>
            </TouchableOpacity>
        )
    }
}

If you are looking to play sound tracks from a list of sounds please check this gist for detailed code.

You can use react-native-track-player library for audio player.

Hooks version (React 16.8+):

Minimal version.

Place your music file (mp3) in the public folder.

import React from 'react';

function App() {
  let audio = new Audio("/christmas.mp3")

  const start = () => {
    audio.play()
  }

  return (
    < div >
      <button onClick={start}>Play</button>
    </div >
  );
}

export default App;