ITunes match replacing studio songs with live songs

ok - so I noticed one day that many of the studio versions of my songs had been replaced and/or combined with live songs from other albums by a given artist. Luckily, I had a backup. So I restored a bunch of songs, imported them into my iTunes library and then ran iTunes match again. What it did was reduce my song count by about 300 songs and once again certain studio versions of songs are replaced with live versions, and some songs have disappeared entirely.
Is this how Match is supposed to work? Has anyone else run into similar problems?

Yes, iTunes Match can be made to work with more than one Apple Id. One route is simply to import Songs into a new library using the separate libraries for each Apple Id as source. Attempting to play Songs will prompt for authorisation if not already present on the computer. Once authorisation is complete for each Apple Id concerned the new library can be used with iTunes Match to cover all Songs.
Hope this is helpful - ensuring you have secure backups of all source libraries prior to this action is recommended. Also worth backing up resulting new library both before and after iTunes Match attempt to support restoration of any files as needed at a later date.

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