I am seeing "gathering information" forever

When I start iTunes it goes through "Gathering information about your iTunes library" and the prgress bar goes all the way to the right.  And nothing beyond that ever happens.  Activity Monitor shows iTunes using (at this moment, 60% CPU but I have seen it as high as 170%.  If I use the Stop button it stops but resumes shortly after.  I tried turning Match off and then back on but that didn't change a thing.
When I originally did the Match it seemed to go fine.  I had a few errors, quite a few "Matched", many "Uploaded" and even more "Purchased", and what seemed to be a lot of "Waiting" but those cleared mostly over a few days.  Now everything is either "Waiting" or "Not Eligible" ...
I haven't seen anyone else with the problem yet and thought you all might be able to help.
Bill W

I have seen similar problems with individual songs in 'Gathering for Information' never proceeding after I have been able to get my whole library into match.  Every once in awhile, match will go back and do an update or I will add some music and it will get stuck.  What I am finding is it gets stuck on songs it downloaded via match (i.e. matched songs from my library or purchased songs I deleted and redownloaded from match).  Perhaps my solution for this case pertains to those with new libraries - I think it is a corrupt file or library entry in iTunes and I found a way to see which file it is stuck on.
On OSX:
- open up Activity Monitor
- Select the iTunes process.  It usually shows activity constant around 60%
- Choose inspect
- Select Open Files and Ports
- Watch or scroll thru the list.  Eventually you will notice a file name and path for a song to repeatedly flash or show up in the list and disappear.  It may take a few seconds looking at different parts of the list to notice the changes as the list updates in real time.  If a file contines to repeat, this is the song that is messed up.  Remove it from your itunes library and see if match will then work. 
If it was a bad file, you can try to re-add it but it will likely fail again.  For songs I had downloaded from match that caused this for me, I just redownloaded from match and then it worked.  I don't know if it was the file or the itunes library itself that was corrupt.

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