ITunes Match seems to now be fixed for me

Hi,
iTunes Match on my iMac stopped working about 10 days ago.  I would never get any error messages but the process would freeze, most commonly on step1, but on other steps at various times aswell.
I tried a lot of troubleshooting suggestions to try to get it to work.  I tried turning iTunes Match on and off, turning Genius on and off, booting up in safe mode, re-creating the iTunes library by following a support article, and trying iTunes Match on a new user account.  All without any success.
I then phoned AppleCare for a second time and they decided that it would be best to send my issue to the Engineering team and asked for my permission for them to access my AppleID to look for any corruption/issues.  As part of this I was given a new password for my AppleID to use going forward.
About 5 hours later I tried iTunes Match again and 'voila', it went through without any problems and again today it is still working.
I won't get to speak with AppleCare again until Tuesday but it would appear that my AppleID was corrupt in some way and the only solution was a fix that I couldn't apply at my end and needed to be done via support at AppleCare.
I hope that this may be a solution for others
Dave

hi Mag just tried, still not working for me, stucking on step 3. fails to load even the first song.. apple please fix this problem!!

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