Cannot see music in the cloud

I own an iMac, iPhone, iPad and Macbook Pro. I can access icloud and play all of my 25000 uploaded tracks and a further 900 purchased from itunes from all devices with the exception of one "My Macbook Pro".
I have vistied the Genius Bar in the apple store, who were unable to understand why the Macbook Pro cannot see any uploaded tracks albeit connected to my iTunes account. I have been asked to contact iTunes directly in the hope support can help me.
When running "Update iTunes Match" a pop up screen appears stating;
"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"
iMatch does not go to step 2 "Matching music with songs in the Itunes store"
Neither does iMatch go to step 3 upload artwork or reamining songs"
I have signed out of my apple account on all my devices reopened them and can access iCloud and my library albeit sadly still not from the Macbook
In Summary I have one device that cannot access iCloud in order to play, download or delete tracks I own and have previously uploaded.
Hoping someone out there has had the same issue.................thanks

Yeah that's just the way it is. I use PCs and it's the same story. It's frustrating but what can you do? In addition I have a bigger annoyance on that everyone I close iTunes and relaunch it on my 2nd PC it tells my there's an error and a lightning bolt shows up in the Cloud icon. I have to sign out, sign in and re-add the 2nd computer everything I turn it on to use iTunes Match. That has driven me crazy but I've gotten used to it.

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