ITunes match wont let me play my songs

I have iTunes match, so i am able to listen to all my music, where ever i am, on any device, without it taking up disk space.
That´s all fine and dandy...BUT every time i launch iTunes on my work computer (macbook pro retina, with mavericks, logged in to my Apple ID), all my songs a grayed out, and i am unable to play any songs. the only thing thats running is the little cloud icon next to "Music" in the sidebar.
The only thing that gets it going agine is when i turn off iTunes match, and then back on again. When i do this, everything works just fine.
This is beginning to be extremely annoying, can anybody help?

http://www.apple.com/support/systemstatus/
and http://thenextweb.com/apple/2015/03/11/the-apple-app-store-is-having-problems-an d-itunes-connect-is-down/

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