Constantly losing iCloud connection (lighting bolt in icon)

Hi,
I am trying to do some major Library management, sorting out my Genres and so on.
However, I am finding that my connection 'to the cloud' is terrible. The cloud icon (next to Music, not per-track) is generally there and 'normal' there but as soon as a make a change it switches to the 'lightning bolt' icon and my change is not reflected in the Cloud.
When it works it's great. I collapsed some multi-disc compilations into 1 album and this change was almost instantly reflected on my iPhone. However my connection to whatever that cloud symbol represents appears to be awful, and there's no diagnostics available (other than for Windows…)
This is very, very frustrating as I consider my Mac's library 'authoritative' whereas The Benign And Magnificent Apple has decided that the Cloud is always right and my painstaking changes can be discarded. Because the symbol is generally 'OK' I can't even delay making changes until I know it's working, I just have to make a small change and see what Mr Icon says.
I have tried (over and over…)
Sign out and in to iTunes Match
Sign out of Apple ID and back in
Update iTunes Match
None seem to make any difference. My fundamental problem is my inability to diagnose why this connection is so poor, when Apple's Status pages claim no issues their end.
Any suggestions?
10.8.5 on a Late-2012 Mini running iTunes 11.4 - I'm aware of Mavericks but I have reasons to delay upgrade.

I've had this problem as well although not all the time. It's getting pretty frustrating between issues like this and now all of the issues with iOS8. It's like they've totally forgotten about iTunes and the music app which is the foundation for the iphone to begin with!

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