Itunes Match deletes albums and artwork from the base PC

I use Windows Seven and have immaculate metadata on all songs.  No albums are broken up and everything works perfectly.  When I tried to use the itunes match feature, a bunch of old albums that I imported from the original CD's were deleted.  In addition, about 30% of my album art disappeared and could not be seen in the "get info" window for each of those albums.
Luckily, I made a backup of itunes prior to turning on and purchasing the match service. I fixed this problem as follows:  I deleted my itunes folder, removed itunes and icloud from my computer, downloaded itunes and reinstalled it. Everything works like it did before I started.  Everything was restored. I immediately went to the itunes store menu and made sure that itunes match was not turned on.  I was pleased to see that it wasn't. In other words, I was worried it would know my Apple ID and turn itself on but it didn't.  I would like my 25 dollars back but I'm so happy that the debacle was averted, I'll write this one off. 
The big point here is that Match can delete albums and artwork.  In my case, 99% of the albums were from the original CD's.  My reason for purchasing the expensive CD's is to have possession of the original wav files. You might be interested to know that the artwork that was missing was pretty big, usually about 500 x 500 pixels, so maybe that's why Match couldn't deal with it.  I don't know if this problem occurs when all of your music is purchased directly from Apple. 
The moral of this story: if you back everything up beforehand and this happens to you, it is easily fixed with minimal effort.

same here... no matter if iOS5 or iOS6... When you set up iTunes Match from the scratch it looks just perfect, with all the album art. But then after some days, album art begins to disappear...
Some of them come back when you open the album and close it again - some won't. And even if you got it back - it just disappears again!
Another very annoying bug ist, that albums get torn apart. I see too albums of some of mine and they both show a part of the original album. And it's definetly no an issue with bad ID3 Tags or somethin like that. It happens with purchased music from the iTunes Store too!
I really hoped Apple was going to fix this issues - i'm using it since day one, so almost a year now. And nothing changed!
I don't think I'm going to renew my subscription.

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