Music played in iTunes crackles

Hi. Basically my problem is the above - when I play music in iTunes, it crackles and there's general interferencey noises. When I play music in WMP, no crackles. This is the same for mp3 and aac files. Anyone know how to help?
Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo A1650 Windows XP

I need an answer, also. Played with the equalizer and now all songs play back with static and distortion. What to do?

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When I open up any of the folders in my iTunes Music folder, they appear to be empty. No MP3 files are listed at all. Yet, iTunes can still play the music.
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You were absolutely right, Rob. I couldn't believe it when I saw it. I've got nearly 200 Artist folders with 1,000 or so Album folders - and they are all completely empty of music.
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Do you know if iTunes had any practical reason for leaving all those empty folders behind? I'm just wondering if it is safe to manually delete them. I noticed, for example, that they aren't completely empty. They contain hidden files of Album Art and various ini files. I wouldn't want to delete them and then find out that I just deleted all my album art and a bunch of important settings files.
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