How is itunes match working for yall?

how is itunes match working fr yall?

I'm using Match with my work computer, my home computer and our AppleTV.
Match works well with the ATV.  I can now listen to nearly all of my libary without having a computer turned on and running iTunes.   
Overall My experience has been an 8 out of 10.     Dissapointing. I have come to expect Apple to deliver a consistant 10.   If you haven't purchased match yet, I recommend you wait a few months.
All of my music is legal.  iTunes store, CD rips, direct purchase from Artist's website and a few legal frebies  from an Artist's website.   
The initial match took days.  I'm not counting that agasint Apple though. I've got a lot of music and a slow home connection.  I still have about 100 tracks at home that need to upload. 
Problems:
Duplicates.   Match gave me hundredes of duplicates.    --- At a minimum Match should be able to replace an old 128kbps DRM iTunes purchase with the 256k matched version. 
Match also duplicated CD rips.   For example if I ripped a CD as ALAC, match gave me a 256kbps duplicate. It shouldn't.   Match has an annoying habbit of picking the lower quality version as the 'real' one and the ALAC as the duplicate. 
I haven't had as many problems with lost information as others have reported, but I did have to go back and fix a few CD rips.
I fixed most of this by hand but it took hours.
Music that refuses to match at all.  I still have dozens of tracks that won't match.   Mostly this is music I've purchase directly from a Band's website.  The files are ALAC or FLAC converted to ALAC.   There doesn't seem to be any rule as to what will or will not match.  Some albums matched a few tracks but not others.

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