I think ive crack iTunes match

Good afternoon,
After many days and hours of messing around with itunes match i think ive worked it out,
Basicaly out of 8000 songs i had 200 errors and some stuck on waiting status even after repeatin the steps over and over again.
so what i did was change the imported file type within iTunes from ACC to AIFF and added that copied files to Imatch then deleted the orignal from my
pc and from iCloud, rescan and all but a couple match or uploaded.
Happy days and im finally happy as its taken nearly a week.
Hope this helps

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Do you know how iTunes match the music? For example, I ripped the CD "Rent [Film Soundtrack]" and there are actually two discs, so I have two album names Disc 1 and Disc 2 while iTunes version only has one album and with different name of course ("Rent (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)"). In this case, will iTunes Match work?If not, is there anyway that I can make it work?
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iTunes Store: Subscribing to iTunes Match
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4914
iTunes Store: How to delete songs from iCloud
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4915
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