HT204406 iTunes Match replacing music with censored versions

Has there been a solution found for iTunes Match replacing music with censored versions?  Everything I read has been old and no real solutions.  This was unexpected and an unacceptable result of me paying for a service.  At minimum there should be a question prompting the user to agree to censored replacements or the use of original music if a match cannot be found.  Thanks in advance to anyone that can help and sorry if this is duplicated info.

You're files are not gone. They are still on the HDD of your computer. Apparently, at some point you've created a new, empty iTunes library. Go to ~/Music and tell us what folders are there. At minimum there will be a folder named "iTunes" where all your files will be.
If you have backups, you can restore the iTunes library files from immediately before the problem happened and be back to pretty close to where you were.

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