ITunes Match Step 3 Stuck on Last Song

i just signed up for iTunes Match and already experienced a bug ...
Going trough installation I am stuck in Step 2 on the last song...
I read on other forums that people restarted computers, stopped-restarted the installation yet after having tried even this I found no success...
I saw other people suggesting you might wanna convert your files into other format as maybe itunes does not reckognize certain format but that was a pretty long post and Im wondering if Itunes has figured out a ... more smooth way ! !
im not a tech expert and neither have time to bang my head to much around this issue...
I was hoping to have a easy installation but Itunes Match seems to actually have this problem reocurring in many users... (on step 3 too)...
Any good alternative solution ???

Hey everyone...I've been futzing with iTunes Match since the beta was released (I'm a developer) and every time I started iTunes Match it would lockup all my applications usually at Step 1 but sometimes at Step 2 (I could move between them but everyone was beachballing). I've tried for months to get iTunes Match working without result. I would close every app to give it maximum CPU and memory, repair permisions and every other Snake Oil remedy I could think of, without luck. Then today I had a breakthrough. Here's what I did and hopefully it helps someone else:
1. Enable iTunes Match, let it run and lockup/stall/freeze at least once. Restart iTunes and go to iTunes Match in the left bar and click the "stop" button.
2. Go back to your music library, right click on the column names at the top and add "iCloud Download" and "iCloud Status". You should see all your tracks as "Waiting...".
3. Select a group of tracks (I do about 500 at a time), right click and chose "Add to iCloud"
4. iTunes will whirl for a bit and with a bit of luck you'll see it actually processing and uploading/matching music.
5. Repeat this for the rest of your library (increasing the number of tracks you selected if you're brave) and in no time you should be up and running on iCloud.
It's a bummer that the technology isn't better but at least I found a way to get it going.

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There is a software error which causes the Step 3, upload to iTunes, to hang.
I've tried the following unsuccessfully.
1. Restart iTunes. Interestingly, iTunes will not restart in this condition suggesting a hung process. One must force quit.
2. Check for and remove 'dead tracks'
3. Download and reinstall iTunes
4. Restart iTunes match
5. Reboot iMac
6. Run Disk Utility / Repair permissions. Also ran Disk Utility / Repair
None of the above has any effect on the problem.
There is no upload restriction for my ISP - don't tell me that it is my ISP Apple.
This is NOT a "slow upload" problem. This is a FAILURE TO UPLOAD problem.
Note I am running fully updated iMac with Lion.
Thank you.

Hey everyone...I've been futzing with iTunes Match since the beta was released (I'm a developer) and every time I started iTunes Match it would lockup all my applications usually at Step 1 but sometimes at Step 2 (I could move between them but everyone was beachballing). I've tried for months to get iTunes Match working without result. I would close every app to give it maximum CPU and memory, repair permisions and every other Snake Oil remedy I could think of, without luck. Then today I had a breakthrough. Here's what I did and hopefully it helps someone else:
1. Enable iTunes Match, let it run and lockup/stall/freeze at least once. Restart iTunes and go to iTunes Match in the left bar and click the "stop" button.
2. Go back to your music library, right click on the column names at the top and add "iCloud Download" and "iCloud Status". You should see all your tracks as "Waiting...".
3. Select a group of tracks (I do about 500 at a time), right click and chose "Add to iCloud"
4. iTunes will whirl for a bit and with a bit of luck you'll see it actually processing and uploading/matching music.
5. Repeat this for the rest of your library (increasing the number of tracks you selected if you're brave) and in no time you should be up and running on iCloud.
It's a bummer that the technology isn't better but at least I found a way to get it going.

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HT204406 iTunes Match hangs in step 2 at the last song

What do I do now?

Bob,
To your note above,
"Hi Daan,
I have the same problem. I heard from some people that just need to wait until Apple's servers are taxed less. This is due to last 19 more countries where iTunes was made available match.
Regards Bob".
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Mike Connelly wrote:
I don't know that getting stuck on step 3 is necessarily the same problem, sounds like on that step you can just quit out of it and it picks up where it left off.
Nope, not here at least. I get into step 3 and it will upload a batch of songs and then, for no apparent reason, it will just freeze, after which I stop, restart and it begins the entire process from step 1. Every single time. In its defense, however, I have to say that each time it's found more stuff to match. But I'd rather run through Match again after the initial batch has been uploaded, because this is maddening. Both days now I've left for work with it running, thinking it would be finished when I got home and I come home to it frozen just a bit further than I left it.

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In case it's relevant, I've got Windows 8 on my laptop and my iTunes library is based on an external hard-drive I've got connected to the laptop by USB.
If there is any definitive answer to solving this problem, can someone please help me ASAP?

i'm having the same problem. it's been in step 1 for two days. I tried stopping it and nothing. please let me know if you had a solution on this issue.
thx

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