Crackling when playing

hey i get crackling when i play audio cds and sounds like the vocals are really low can anyone tell me how to fix it's maybe a reverb prob or something?

what kind of soundcard do you have? try going to system sounds and set 'cd line in' to mute. im pretty sure it doesn't control the sound from any cd you put in your dri've. but it certainly helps to nullify scratchiness

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Left for work one day and iTunes was working. Came home the next day and the program dumped EVERYTHING. It did not carry a single song in the library and all 52 playlists were gone even though all files were still sitting in the iTunes folder as they always were. Each playlist xml file I found and opened with Notepad showed only the playlists that come with the program and nothing I had created. I'm assuming this issue occurred because of a corrupted xml library file or there was a conflict with my old 20GB hard drive that used to house the old OS and program files (that hard drive has since been wiped).
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