Deleted iTunes Match songs always reappear

I have deleted several thousands of songs stored in my iTunes Match.
I did it 999 songs at a time.
But, the 1500 remaining songs are impossible to delete.
I refreshed the iTunes Match.
I also waited several hours to let Apple servers sync.
But these songs always reappear!
I have the same phenomenon with the lists and smart lists.

Hi,
This is the support item from Apple iTunes Store: How to delete songs from iCloud. This has always worked for me.
Do you select "update iTunes match" when you delete the tracks? There is no need to do this!
Jim

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The first thing to keep in mind is that not every track will be "matched." Some will be "uploaded." You need to enable the iCloud Status column in the iTunes browser to see what the track's status are. Switch to Song view and pull down View > View Options. Select "iCloud Status" then close the window. Now you will be able to see the status of the songs. Tracks with a status of "uploaded" are the exact same tracks that were on your computer.
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Several (maybe 5%) of iTunes Matched songs on my iPhone do this... at EXACTLY 1/2 way through the song.
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Hey Guys, from my late model iPhone 4, I am also seeing my iTunes Match songs terminate playing very abruptly ...some won't play at all ...others skip to the next track after 10 seconds.
I checked the source files on my iMAC, and they are 100 percent perfect.
Tried deleting them, recreating them, signing out and then back into iTunes with Match On & Off, etc ...still no resolution to these problems.
Maybe the MATCH product is crashing under it's own weight now? It used to be good, but now I am not so sure anymore.
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Best route to stop it if essential is to switch off iTunes Match.

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iTunes 11 for Mac: Access all your music anytime, anywhere with iTunes Match
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH12284
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To only display downloaded songs in your iTunes library, choose View > Hide Music in the Cloud. This also hides any previous iTunes Store purchases you haven’t downloaded.
For information about downloading and playing songs on an iOS device, see the documentation for the device.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4527
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Is this on an album you have purchased through iTunes or on an album you added yourself?
I think what jimzgoldfinch was stating is:
Add yourself: Normal right click delete and delete from cloud "SHOULD" work.
Purchase through iTunes: If you delete and delete from cloud, any time Apple re-syncs your "purchased" items it will dump it back in. So he was saying to go Previous Purchases in the iTunes Store where you should be able to remove it from there so it hides it from the re-sync list.
Basically if you bought it from Apple they think you always want it and will shove it back into your library.
Now if it's something you added yourself, you might make sure you haven't downloaded it to another device from the cloud, because it will see it on the other device and re-upload it as well. I've had this happen since I have both a MacBook and Windows iTunes. I downloaded it on both, deleted from MacBook and cloud, but then once my Windows machine updated it's iTunes Match...it added it back in. I had to remove it from both computers and iPhones to make sure it wasn't just sitting somewhere to be matched again.
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Going through all those files I noticed several common themes that may have triggered the problem: 1) multiple artists, 2) special characters in the song title, artist and/or album name - particularly umlauts (we have quite a few german songs in our library.) 3) very long title, artist and/or album names.
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I'm on iTunes 10.6.3.65 on windows and apple better get this fixed quick coz this is getting on my nerves.
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Everyone,
Boy is this a bug, but I fixed it. If you haven't by now, try this.
Select all, Delete, Yes, Keep Files.
Then re-add the same folder to your library.
Enjoy
Stupid, but it worked for my iTunes files, burned CDs, old mp3s, everything. I'm mostly posting this b/c I didn't find the answer on the several posts I opened and this one is at the top of Google's list.
-OPP

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