How do I turn off Itunes match without lossing all my music

Hi,
I had all my music on my hard drive. Then I turned om Itunes match. All the music was accesible with all the IOS devices.
1. But playing on IOS devices during travel took almost all my download availbility amount of GB of my provider.
2. Itunes match does not work with Sonos, so my smart playlists in itunes are not accesible by sonos
I just want took go back to the previous situation.
a. hard downloads of music to my imac
b. playlists accesible by sonos
c. hand synchronizing with my IOS devices
I searched the internet to get directions to accomplish this but no joy
Can anyone on this foum give me a hand?

Thanks for all the replies.
First of all I made a conceptual mistake. I was under the impression that if you turn om itunes matches all music would disapear from the HD of the computer because everything was in the cloud. Secondly I thought that new music bought from the itunes store would be tagged and not being fysical downloaded to the HD. Both conceptual ideas proved to be wrong. All the music is still fysical on my HD.
Turning of itunes match I can do in itunes under the store menu I found that. Do I still have to turn it off on all the mobile devices, or will turning of in the store menu suffice?

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