HT201272 download all my music from cloud

I am running iTunes 11.1.5 in Mac OS 10.8.5 on my mid-2011 MacBook Air.
I recently confronted a long-standing issue regarding precipitous battery decay, and, when
the Apple Store couldn't "find" a hardware issue, they suggested I wipe the disk and reinstall my OS.
I did this, and, of course, all my digital content is viewable in iTunes but only as potential downloads from iCloud (I do use
iTunes Match).  I don't care to store movies or TV Shows on the Air, but *would* like to have all my music
back on this hard drive.  I can only seem to initiate a download of music actually purchased in iTunes.
That's great for the first 850 or so songs, but, at my age, most of my stuff was ripped from my cd's, so
now I'd like to get my *other* 6500 songs back on the Air without clicking that little cloud icon 6500 times.
I'd use Home Sharing, but it appears this would simply double the number of entries in iTunes - those that
are really there and those (same ones really) in the cloud, but the again I'd have to deal with all those dupes.
'Eliminate Duplicates' isn't an option, as there are many titles I have multiple versions of.
I know I must be missing something obvious...but how do I get this ripped music easily back on the Air???
TIA.

Download all purchased music from iCloud.

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