How do I load songs into iTunes match in chunks?

I have just bought iTunes Match and now want to load my entire music catalogue to iCloud. I have approximately 19.000 music-titles all stored on a NAS-server. They´re all playable from iTunes on my Mac (running Maverick OS X).
I've tried transferring the songs four times, and every times iTunes stops transferring when it reaches 800/900 songs. There' s no way to pause, continue from last transfer or even transfer the songs to iCloud in chunks (Titles with A, then titles with B etc.).
How do I
- transfer in chunks?
- select the songs to be transferrede, and continue with other songs when they´re finished?
- start from last transfer, when iTunes suddenly stops transferring?
If none of the above is possible; how do I secure that iTunes Match will NOT suddenly stop transferring?
I hope somebody can help me.
Thanks,
Jan

While you seem to have sorted out your problem, here is a hint for those who have not yet suceeded. I have had the same issue, and googling for it reveals that several other people have the same problem. Basically, it seems that uploading many songs (i.e., when there are no matching songs in Apple's gigantic music repository) for some users will "saturate" the user's uplink capacity, causing time out issues with the iTunes server. Whether you should blame your home gateway, your ISP, or even Apple I don't know. Regardless, the solution is to temporary limit the bandwidth of your uplink. Depending on your set-up, you can accomplish this by fiddling with the QoS settings of your gateway/router, or download a program that does this for the computer that uploads the songs. I will not repeat here how to do this, but see
https://discussions.apple.com/message/22813944#22813944
and
http://christianvarga.com/2012/05/itunes-match-not-uploading-songs-heres-how-to- fix-it/
for instructions for OS X and Windows PC's, respectively.

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