ITunes Match removed all existing songs from iPhone

Be careful. I now have 14G free on my iPhone! All my previously synced music (3032 songs) is gone! I have just the 167 songs I have bought from iTunes!
Watch out!

A bunch of MacWorld advice suggested that it would leave the tunes on there that were there already.
http://www.macworld.com/article/163607/2011/11/toggle_between_itunes_match_and_l ocal_syncing.html
Always pays to believe what you read.

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  • HT4914 I just subscribed to iTunes match but only 61 songs from my 7GB of music on my iphone showed up.  I do not want to lose any music.  What should i do?

    I just subscribed to iTunes match but only 61 songs from my 7GB of music on my iphone showed up.  I do not want to lose any music.  What should i do?  When I go to settings-music-and try to enable iTunes Match on my iPhone it says "iTunes Match will replace the music library on this device"  I don't want to do that it only has 61 of my 7GB of songs.

    did you find out the answer?  I am afraid to hit enable.

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    So my ipod is still iOS 4 or somthing and I'm was going to update it on my laptop
    when I go transfer my puschased iteams on my itunes it says "Are you sure you want to remove all existing music, movies, tv shows and tones from this ipod and sync with this itunes libary?"
    I'm so confused what will it do? and what will it mean???

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  • How can it that half of my songs are matched in iTunes Match where the other songs from the same CD (ripped by Itunes) are not matched but uploaded?

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    The Artwork does tend to reappear for many over a few days / weeks - however, if your library backup has all Artwork present it would be wise to save the Album Art separately and reapply to Albums not showing art work in the library grid view.
    Many of the other performance issues you mention are not typical - though during the past working week or so the Apple Infrastructure has been very heavily loaded with multiples countries having service go-live symultaneously.

  • ITunes won't transfer certain songs from iPhone

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    Hello there, Jon.
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    iOS: "Not enough free space" alert when trying to sync
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    I have subscribed to itunes match and it checked all of my songs but has frozed 2 somge from the end of step 2 and won't move on to the next step. I don't know how to resolve this as I have tried stopping and starting it but it seems to freeze in the same place every time.

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    Hi,
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    Jim

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    Never lost my music in all the years updating my phones. Did you sync your phone with a different computer that doesn't have your original itunes library? Thiings do get erased that way.

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    Can sync my phone no problem but certain songs, synced with an older laptop, are not recognised by my new laptop (windows xp) These songs are not on icloud either. confused? please help

    Copy the files from the old laptop, or its backup, into your new library. See also Recover your iTunes library from your iPod or iOS device.
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    Thanks - tired that, as well.
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