I can't access my music on itunes match.

I've been having problems with itunes match. My songs seem to have disappeared from the cloud. I have a large library of music stored on an external harddrive (almost 20,000 songs). After a long wait for everything to match / upload I used match for a couple days and it worked fine. Assuming all my music was in the cloud now, I disconnected my external harddrive and closed itunes. I was then unable to use match on my iphone. I opened itunes on my macbook again, and my library shows up, but I am unable to play songs without the harddrive connected. I am also unable to download songs from the cloud to my iphone. I think I have tried everything as far as signing out and back in, updating match, re-authorizing computer. I have also checked all the settings for match on the iphone. Truthfully I'm not sure if I messed something up by checking all the different settings. I did authorize another computer at around the same time as this all occured, not sure if this may have something to do with it. Any help or suggestions will be appreciated. Thanks, Mike

I'm not sure about why you are having issues with your iPhone, but I suspect that the external drive is at the root of it.
From what I understand, if you have your library on an external, but want to use the cloud versions, you need to actually delete the songs from your iTunes library first. I suspect that if you don't your iTunes library is under the impression that the files are stored locally and looks for them.
Tio do this, you need to select all the songs and delete them from iTunes. Make sure that you don't check the box to also delete them from the cloud, and also that you don't send the files to your recycle bin (as you don't want to lose your original files). iTunes will then try to play the cloud versions.
However, it sounds to me as if in your attempting to get this all working you have messed something else up. Are the songs actually showing up on your phone? I have a concern that somehow you may have inadvertantly deleted the music from the cloud.
If the songs have been removed from the cloud then all may not be lost, as they do seem to be retained there for a while, and you may not need to re-upload everything. If that is the case then I would suggest plugging the external in, making sure the songs all play OK and then re-running the match process.
If your intention was to be able to use your external when at home and the cloud version when you are away then the only solution I have heard of yet is to have two libraries, one which has the files still on it (that you use with the external plugged in) and the other with the files deleted, for when you haven't got the external.
Hopefully that makes some sort of sense.

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