ITunes Match, only half of the song?

Hey everyone,
So I got iTunes match not too long ago, I did the upload portion of it on my main Desktop WIndows-Based PC. Everything appeared to have worked, and I was able to download everything to my MacBook Air, iPad, and iPhone. Few days later I was driving to work whilist rocking to some Lionel Richie, and the song "Hello" played half-way when the next song came on. As a matter of fact it does this with several songs all all of my devices except my Desktop. So my questions are:
1. ***?
2. How do I fix it?
3. Is there any way of changing the master computer (i.e. the computer which does the syncing) over to my MacBook Air?
Thanks in advance.

Hello,
I have the same problem and changing you master computer won't work. I have tried doing it from my mbPro to my mbAir and viceversa and nothing has worked so far. I have also exchanged several e-mails with Apple reps and phone calls as well, and as iTunes Match respects they are clueless so all I've gotten back from them is useless link to forums and posted solutions which do not relate at all with our actual issue. They keep saying that redownloading the files will fix it but it doesn't. I own and iPhone5 and a "new" iPad both running iOS 6. Conversely when I'm using iTunes Match on my mbAir from a newly created library (so no hard copies of the files in the computer, just from the cloud) everything works perfectly, so apparently is a bug in the iOS. I'm really frustrated with this but the fix will have to be provided in a new version release, and they already have a lot in their hands so I'm not very confident it will come any time soon. They might be able to make the fix from the iTunes Match servers but who knows. So patience my friend, that's all that's required from us at this point.
Sincerely,
Abdel

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