[G 2014 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sanotehu:
I have not. I've done a lot more searching today and can't find any other reports of this problem, so it makes me think it's something unique to me. Here's the portion of a logcat where I select the notification tone in settings (just to trigger playing a sound). I'm not at all familiar with this, but if anyone sees something that seems wrong I'd love a hint. Going to try another clean install and see if I can figure it out...

Edit: Reinstalled and didn't add any apps, still have this problem. Any suggestions for troubleshooting this?

Thanks for any help!

[ 03-18 11:22:13.048 9402: 9427 I/ActivityManager ]
Displayed com.android.providers.media/.RingtonePickerActivity: +551ms

[ 03-18 11:22:13.065 13948:13948 I/Timeline ]
Timeline: Activity_idle id: android.os.BinderProxy@281e59c0 time:84467170

[ 03-18 11:22:13.220 9402: 9427 I/Timeline ]
Timeline: Activity_windows_visible id: ActivityRecord{15118740 u0 com.android.providers.media/.RingtonePickerActivity t69} time:84467324

[ 03-18 11:22:18.709 13948:13948 E/MediaPlayer-JNI ]
QCMediaPlayer mediaplayer NOT present

[ 03-18 11:22:18.742 9173: 9173 D/AwesomePlayer ]
printFileName fd(30) -> /system/media/audio/notifications/Selenium.ogg

[ 03-18 11:22:18.748 9173: 9173 I/FFmpegExtractor ]
android-source:0xb242e100

[ 03-18 11:22:18.761 9173: 9173 I/FFMPEG ]
Input #0, ogg, from 'android-source:0xb242e100':

[ 03-18 11:22:18.761 9173: 9173 I/FFMPEG ]
Duration: 00:00:01.00, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 87 kb/s

[ 03-18 11:22:18.761 9173: 9173 I/FFMPEG ]
Stream #0:0: Audio: vorbis, 44100 Hz, stereo, fltp, 112 kb/s

[ 03-18 11:22:18.761 9173: 9173 D/FFmpegExtractor ]
FFmpegExtrator, url: android-source:0xb242e100, format_name: ogg, format_long_name: Ogg

[ 03-18 11:22:18.761 9173: 9173 I/FFmpegExtractor ]
adjust mime(application/ogg -> audio/vorbis)

[ 03-18 11:22:18.761 9173: 9173 D/FFmpegExtractor ]
suppoted codec(vorbis) by official Stagefright

[ 03-18 11:22:18.762 9173: 9173 D/FFmpegExtractor ]
ffmpeg detected media content as 'audio/vorbis' with confidence 0.08

[ 03-18 11:22:18.781 9173: 9173 D/ExtendedUtils ]
extended extractor not needed, return default

[ 03-18 11:22:18.782 9173:14812 W/Utils ]
bool android::canOffloadStream(const android::sp<android::MetaData>&, bool, const android::sp<android::MetaData>&, bool, audio_stream_type_t) No sample bit depth info in meta data

[ 03-18 11:22:18.782 9173:14812 I/str_params ]
key: 'SND_CARD_STATUS' value: ''

[ 03-18 11:22:18.783 9173:14812 D/OMXCodec ]
Successfully allocated OMX node 'OMX.google.vorbis.decoder'

[ 03-18 11:22:18.783 9173:14812 I/OMXCodec ]
Codec outputs a different number of channels than the input stream contains (contains 2 channels, codec outputs 1 channels).

[ 03-18 11:22:18.783 9173:14812 I/ExtendedUtils ]
decision 0 mime

[ 03-18 11:22:18.783 9173:14812 I/AwesomePlayer ]
Could not offload audio decode, try pcm offload

[ 03-18 11:22:18.783 9173:14812 W/Utils ]
bool android::canOffloadStream(const android::sp<android::MetaData>&, bool, const android::sp<android::MetaData>&, bool, audio_stream_type_t) No sample bit depth info in meta data

[ 03-18 11:22:18.783 9173:14812 I/AudioPolicyManager ]
PCM offload property is enabled

[ 03-18 11:22:18.783 9173:14812 I/OMXCodec ]
[OMX.google.vorbis.decoder] allocating 4 buffers of size 8192 on input port

[ 03-18 11:22:18.784 9173:14812 I/OMXCodec ]
[OMX.google.vorbis.decoder] allocated buffer 0xb4549b00 on input port

[ 03-18 11:22:18.784 9173:14812 I/OMXCodec ]
[OMX.google.vorbis.decoder] allocated buffer 0xb4549b50 on input port

[ 03-18 11:22:18.784 9173:14812 I/OMXCodec ]
[OMX.google.vorbis.decoder] allocated buffer 0xb4549ba0 on input port

[ 03-18 11:22:18.784 9173:14812 I/OMXCodec ]
[OMX.google.vorbis.decoder] allocated buffer 0xb4549bf0 on input port

[ 03-18 11:22:18.784 9173:14812 I/OMXCodec ]
[OMX.google.vorbis.decoder] allocating 4 buffers of size 32768 on output port

[ 03-18 11:22:18.784 9173:14812 I/OMXCodec ]
[OMX.google.vorbis.decoder] allocated buffer 0xb4549c40 on output port

[ 03-18 11:22:18.784 9173:14812 I/OMXCodec ]
[OMX.google.vorbis.decoder] allocated buffer 0xb4549ce0 on output port

[ 03-18 11:22:18.784 9173:14812 I/OMXCodec ]
[OMX.google.vorbis.decoder] allocated buffer 0xb4549d30 on output port

[ 03-18 11:22:18.784 9173:14812 I/OMXCodec ]
[OMX.google.vorbis.decoder] allocated buffer 0xb4549d80 on output port

[ 03-18 11:22:18.785 13948:13948 E/MediaPlayer ]
Should have subtitle controller already set

[ 03-18 11:22:18.785 13948:13948 D/Ringtone ]
Successfully created local player

[ 03-18 11:22:18.786 9173:12072 I/AudioPlayer ]
start of Playback, useOffload 0

[ 03-18 11:22:18.791 9173:14814 I/OMXCodec ]
[OMX.google.vorbis.decoder] allocating 4 buffers of size 32768 on output port

[ 03-18 11:22:18.791 9173:14814 I/OMXCodec ]
[OMX.google.vorbis.decoder] allocated buffer 0xb4549d30 on output port

[ 03-18 11:22:18.791 9173:14814 I/OMXCodec ]
[OMX.google.vorbis.decoder] allocated buffer 0xb4549ce0 on output port

[ 03-18 11:22:18.791 9173:14814 I/OMXCodec ]
[OMX.google.vorbis.decoder] allocated buffer 0xb4549c40 on output port

[ 03-18 11:22:18.791 9173:14814 I/OMXCodec ]
[OMX.google.vorbis.decoder] allocated buffer 0xb2c10060 on output port

[ 03-18 11:22:18.799 13948:13948 E/MediaPlayer ]
Should have subtitle controller already set

[ 03-18 11:22:18.808 9173: 9439 D/audio_hw_primary ]
start_output_stream: enter: stream(0xb615ec00)usecase(0: deep-buffer-playback) devices(0x2)

[ 03-18 11:22:18.808 9173: 9439 D/audio_hw_primary ]
start_output_stream: enter: usecase(0: deep-buffer-playback) devices(0x2)

[ 03-18 11:22:18.808 9173: 9439 D/audio_hw_primary ]
select_devices: out_snd_device(2: speaker) in_snd_device(0: )

[ 03-18 11:22:18.808 9173: 9439 W/msm8974_platform ]
Codec backend bitwidth 16, samplerate 48000

[ 03-18 11:22:18.808 9173: 9439 D/hardware_info ]
hw_info_append_hw_type : device_name = speaker-lite

[ 03-18 11:22:18.808 9173: 9439 I/msm8974_platform ]
platform_send_audio_calibration: sending audio calibration for snd_device(2) acdb_id(14)

[ 03-18 11:22:18.817 9173: 9439 D/audio_hw_primary ]
select_devices: done

[ 03-18 11:22:18.931 9173:14816 E/AudioSink ]
received unknown event type: 1 inside CallbackWrapper !

[ 03-18 11:22:19.931 9173:14812 D/AudioPlayer ]
Pause Playback at 0

[ 03-18 11:22:19.934 13948:13948 E/MediaPlayer ]
internal/external state mismatch corrected