ITunes Match doesn't download to phone during song play anymore?

Hi,
I have noticed massive data usage on my mobile contract recently and have narrowed it down to iTunes.
I have match and I use the phone in my car to listen to music. I have allot of music but normally would listen to the same album a few times in a row while heading back and forth to work and the way the system used to work was to download the album onto the phone during the first playback.. That meant that subsequent playbacks of that album would not use up my data allowance as it was saved to the phone.
I used to allow this to build up and then once the phone was nearly full, delete off some of the music and allow it to build up again.
However, now there is no downloading, just constant streaming no matter how often the same song/album is repeated. Is there any way to set it up like it was?
Cheers
Dave

First trouble shooting step is to always simply quit iTunes, wait a few seconds, then launch it again and try to download the tracks again. If that doesn't work, then stop iTunes Match while holding down the Option key and quit iTunes. Wait a few seconds then relaunch it and start iTM. After adding the computer and letting the scan complete you ought to be able to download the tracks.
Once you get the tracks downloaded immediately purchase an external HDD that is 2 to 3 times the size of the internal HDD of the computer and start using the backup software of your choice to backup all your personal data. iTunes Match is not a backup service. You are responsible for making backups of your data.

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