ITunes Match in an endless loop?

Recently my iTunes Match got stuck in an endless loop. It's been working well for the most part for the past year, but it just suddenly decided to stop and I'm not sure why. Basically, it goes through the first step in matching, "Gathering information about your iTunes library." The bar gets to the end and then goes to send the information to Apple, then it gets stuck on "Waiting for Apple to deliver your iTunes Match information." After that it just stops completely for a few seconds as if nothing happened, then automatically starts all over again. It just keeps doing this over and over. I tried turning Match off and on, same thing. I tried deleting the files it was attempting to match, still the same. I tried restoring the "iTunes Library.itl" file from a Time Machine backup. All don't fix the issue.

I'm having the exact same issue here. Worked GREAT on Lion, and actually worked "ok" on Mountain lion even though I had a few 4001 and 4002 problems... overall was fine. But since last week, there's nothing working. I stuck in this loop of step one and step 2 and it just never stops and since it's NEVER going to step 3, all my new songs are never uploaded. It's stops on the very LAST song, the text becomes a little grey and then it starts back to step one again and again.
I'm also getting this weird error: -9810
I tried everything I could find in the forum by turning off iTunes match, and Genius and turning it back on again... nothing is working.
Would be nice if they could fix that... because whether you like it or not, Apple made iTunes the central point of all iOS devices and if it's not working, then better find something else that would actually work.

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You may have a corrupt file that is causing this problem.
If you go into song view and add iCloud status column. To do this go to menu > view > view options and tick box.
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