HT204406 iTunes Match takes forever. Help?

I have 4,000 songs on iTunes, including many long classical pieces, so Match takes forever. Should I download everything onto my Mac?

HI
Has the the number of tracks waiting remained the same over the last couple of days? If so, it would appear that the match process has stalled. I suggest that you stop process and select update iTunes match from menu.
jim.

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if i click on somthing at the itunes store home it takes forever to load
but if i go to the apple.com and click on a song in that itunes store this week box and then open up itunes store it dosent take forever
just until i go to the itunes store home
i have asked my brother if the itunes store takes forever and it does the same thing as mne does then he went to the apple website and clicked on a song in that box and it did not take forever
IT DOOES THIS EVRY TIME
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Do a backup before proceeding.
Try putting the 10.6.3 disk in the computer. During a restart, hold down the option/alt key, select the disk, and see if you can boot from there. If so, select the language, then go to the Utilities menu, and select Disk Utility. Check to see what partition scheme you have by selecting the hard drive.
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Hey,
just got iTunes match, set it up to the best of my knowledge.
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-music icons show up on iPhone 4 and New iPad
The thing is, when I select a song the song opens, album art and all stays on 0:00 then closes again as if it has finished playing.
I tried deleting a song in itunes then download it from iCloud but an error occurs. I deleted completely then added it to the library to see if i could get it to work.. Not working.
Music from iCloud will not play on any of my Apple things including iTunes.. Can someone from Apple or a smart person from the community please help me out.
If someone works at the Apple store in 'Chermside, Brisbane Australia' and wants to meet me to see if they can help that way I can do that too..
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Hi, I've uploaded 600+ tracks to iTunes Match and since deleted the original files from my computer - when I go to play them 'via the cloud' only a handful of songs will play, the rest say 'can't play because original file can't be found!
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However, now I cant connect to iTunes Match or iCloud at all. The screen asking me to Add this computer comes up, when I click and enter my Mac account details I get the error message:
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Should note this happens on the laptop at work, home, everywhere.
You mentioned that you have OS X. Do you have issue with this as well or does it only happen on your PC.
At work, is it possible to do with your works internet set up?
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It is not a bug. However you may leave your polite feedback for Apple at this page: http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunesapp.html

HT204406 itunes match sometimes don't play songs

hi,
i use itunes match with all my music and it works well.
but sometimes when i want to play a song i double-click it and nothing happens: i think itunes loads the muscic (the cloud-icon moves:).
someone can tell me how to solve this problem?
thanks
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ITunes Match - Can it help me?

Evening all,
I've had a very bad day. My old mac have given up on me today - loosing files, photographs and music. No iCloud present - long story.
So, I still have my iTunes library on my iPad, and I have now installed iTunes on a spare PC.
If I was to purchase iTunes Match, could it sync my music from my iPad's iTunes library to empty library on the PC?
As far as I understand, Home Sharing only syncs purchases from iTunes, and 99% of my library is from good old CDs.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thank you in advance,
Hannah

Hi,
Match will not solve you problem. The music needs to be in your itunes library on your computer.
Have a read at this doc https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3991
Jim

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