Have iMatch and added many local mp3's to iTunes library on PC. My goal is to only have music in iCloud with no local copies stored on PC's/iPod/iPad/iPhone. Is this possible?

After loading many mp3's from local PC to iTunes Libraries and enabling iMatch, iTunes indicates that the track data is being extracted from iTunes database to the cloud and some songs uploaded from my local network store to the cloud. When the song list is viewed on the PC there are circles with exclamation points (circl/Excl) by many of the songs that were supposedly uploaded to iCloud. If the songs are played on the PC and the network store where the files were originally accessed is blocked, the files without the circle/Excl are played from the cloud and the 'song could not be located' alarm pops up when trying to play the ones with the circle/Excl. When the network sttore is unblocked the songs play from the local source. How can one force the upload of any/all existing songs to iCloud when not contained in Apples database?

This also applies to your situation: Make and keep a backup of your iTunes library, and only stream from the cloud.

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I

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