Why won't my MacBook read CDs?

Yeah. I bought a couple of CD's and I wanted to import the music into my iTunes library.
So, I put a CD in and it didn't make the normal CD spinning sound and my Macbook spat out the CD. At first I thought it was a problem with the CD. Then I tried another CD and had the same problem. Then I put in another CD and another CD and realized it's probably my mac that's having a problem.
I've had my MacBook since August of last year and it's never previously had this problem.
If you have a solution to this problem, don't hesitate to give me the answer to my problem.

Restarted the computer?
Apple Portables: Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC) - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1411

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