Can't upload new songs

Question

Whenever I attempt to update my iTunes Match, I get the following message:
New songs could not be uploaded.
iCloud can contain up to 25000 songs not purchased from the iTunes Store. Recent additions to this computer exceed that limit, and will not be uploaded.
My iTunes library does indeed exceed 25,000 songs: it currently stands at 25,012. However, my understanding is that iTunes Match does not count any songs purchased from the iTunes Store in this total - and I have 466 songs in Purchased. That means, by my reckoning, I should be able to add another 454 songs from non-iTunes Store sources (CDs, Amazon, etc).
When I first encountered this problem a few weeks' ago, I deleted a number of songs from my Library and was at one point below 25,000 songs. But whenever I tried to update iTunes Match, I had the same message.
I've done all the usual things - rebooted machine, restarted iTunes, etc - but to no avail.
Can anyone help or suggest any fixes?
Many thanks

Answer 1

Hi,
I had a similar problem.
I had to sign out of match and when I signed back in I Go the exceeded limit.
I took drastic action and deleted several thousand track. I created a second blank library and then deleted the tracks from the cloud. By doing it this way, the tracks remain in my original library and keep all relevant metadata, play counts etc. the iCloud status for those tracks are "removed" and are ignored for the purposes of match.
I ran match successfully but I discovered that match had duplicated around 1500 tracks, the download cloud symbol was shown against the duplicates. This extra 1500 now explained the reason for exceeding limit.
I deleted the duplicates and readded the removed tracks. Match remembers that the tracks were previously matched or uploaded, so the process to readd was very quick.
Jim