Download songs while playing (Match)

Hi!
I've all media library stored on Cloud via Match, and I've recently formatted my iMac.
I was wondering if it is possible to automatically download songs during playback. I mean it would be great if iTunes automatically download songs from Cloud and copy in to your local library folder without press the [Download] button.
Do you know if there is any option for that?
Thank you.

Bob_Johnson wrote:
I recently signed up for iTunes Match, and matched all of my songs from iTunes. But now every time I play a song on the iPad it has to download it to the device. This is strange because the whole point of using iTunes Match for me is to save space on the iPad.
Then you signed up for the wrong reason. In order to play a song, it must be on your iPad/iPod/iPhone.
The songs are always downloaded to your device.

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