ITunes match and local files

I have just signed up for iTunes match and have a question. I have a shedload of unorganized music from various CD rips over the years. None of the file names are right, tags are not filled in etc and I dont have the time/patience to go through thousands of songs checking them. Im not fussed about keeping a lot of it but dont want to just delete all of it. I want to use match to tidy this up by letting it match what it can and then deleting everything it can't forever (locally and from the cloud)
What would be the best way to go about this guys? I'm at a bit of a loss! I'm running win 7.
Thanks for any help offered

iTunes Match does not provide ID3 tags from the iTunes Store, so any tracks that do not have ID3 tags now will still not have ID3 tags after they are scanned and mirrored in the cloud.
If a track cannot be "matched" then it is "uploaded." To tell the difference enable the iCloud Status column in the iTunes browser by swtching to Song view and pulling down View > View Options and selecting "iCloud Status" then closing the small window.
You may delete any tracks you choose from the library and the cloud at any time.

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Try posting in the iTunes Match forum - you'll get better responses there.
https://discussions.apple.com/community/itunes/itunes_match

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Because you have deleted the files from the Finder and not in iTunes. Never, ever do this. Always delete tracks from within iTunes.
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I don't have Match or WMA files but from reading I believe you would have to convert the WMA files to some more iTunes-friendly format first, then do the match. Of course Match will provide 256k AAC if it is available so it won't be your original WMA.
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Almost every song/album I have ever purchased and downloaded will not play from the local file, but instead insists or 'redownloading' from the Music Match Cloud.
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The only way these songs will play is to click them, at which point iTunes downloads the song and saves in my iTunes library.
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That fact that iTunes downloads these 'cloud' files and stores them in the very same directory as the files I aready have means iTunes knows what folder to look in for this album, it simply refuses too.

I do seem to have a few duplicates.
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My computer HDD did not crash only my external drive with the music files. I have not had to reinstall iTunes software. The iTunes libarary is still complete and shows the complete list of music. I have also ran Update iTunes Match and all of the music is on the cloud.
I cannot play the music from iTunes that is on the cloud, however the music I purchased from iTunes did download and it will plan from my computer.
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The "system" performed as designed. All devices syncing to one iCloud account are kept in common sync. The idea is that all such devices belong to one user. Different users should have different iCloud accounts. Once your contacts were edited, all devices were updated as well and subsequent backups (from yours and her device) reflected the changed contacts (and any other data that may have been edited like calendars). Your first task is to change your daughter over to a new account before she makes other changes.
The only way I see for getting back contacts is to restore them from a time machine backup, assuming you also have a Mac included in the account which syncs the contacts. However, I'm not sure whether time machine includes contacts from iCloud along with those that are local, "on my Mac".
Otherwise the deleted contacts are gone.

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I was wondering how to use an Apple ID for iTunes Match and other for iCloud and backups. I found an article on the website that said that you actually can do that, but my question arises when I find out that now I only use one ID, all my apps are in there, along with my iPhone backups and stuff. So, if I create an ID for subscribing to iTM, will I lose the ability to update my apps on the old ID?
Please help!
The article is: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4895
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