Homemade AAC File won't play

I am a writer and one of my tricks of the trade is to get the "Alex" or "Victoria" voices to read a long text file and encode it into iTunes, which then compresses it into a standard AAC audio file.  I then plug in my iPhone and I can listen to my work, with the relentless, unforgivening computer voice faithfully recreating every typo and gramatical error.  It makes it easy to proof read later when I already know much of the errors.
I've recently tried to turn this function over to Match.  It SEEMS like I should work, but it doesn't.  It faithfully uploads the files to iCloud, and downloads them to the iPhone...  but they are dimed.  Can't be played.  Note, if I sync them by wire, they work, but by match, they don't.
Anybody have any idea what could casue this?

Open the file (on a Mac) using QuickTime and open the Movie Info window. Report back what codecs and formats are in the file.
The (-2048) error message usually means the format is MPEG-2 and it requires the QuickTime PMEG-2 Playback Component to view.
You could also try installing the free VLC app (Windows version) to play the file.

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