IPad and iTunes Match

Whenever I turn on iTunes Match on my ipad it warns me that all music currently on my ipad will be replaced by songs and lists from iTunes Match...in the process I lose a lot off music, not to mention time put in....why does it do this?

Why? Because that the way it was designed (seriously, I'm not being facetious. There isn't an explanation anyone here can give you beyond that). What I have found, however, it that if the tracks are in fact in iTunes Match, it does NOT delete them. Make sure all of the tracks are in Match before turning it on on a device. And there pretty much isn't a reason to turn it off and on on any kind of regular basis.

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