ITunes Radio Ads won't go away!

My iTunes radio continues to play ads even though I have an iTunes Match subscription, which is enabled on all my devices. Just doesn't seem to recognise it. What's going on?!

An older post said to login to your account within itunes; go to account information; then disable icloud and ping. Since I'm also on 10.6.8 there is no "disable iCloud" option. So this is what I did (and it worked) - from the Account page within iTunes Store (must be logged in):
1. Ping was already disabled/off
2. In the iTunes match section, I clicked "Learn More" then clicked "No thanks". Effectively turning off Match (it gets removed from the sidebar).
3. Under "Settings" I turned off "Recommendations and Ping Postings".
I don't know which step - #2 or #3 actually made that login prompt no longer appear, but it doesn't so I'm happy.
Also, I had already disabled "Download updates automatically" in system preferences (and that didn't fix the iTunes problem). Note that I had that disabled that before I updated to 10.6.8 and the 10.6.8 re-enabled it. Not related, just mentioning in case that box needs to be unchecked too.
Other things you can try are in this Reset Warnings tip in this iTunes Windows thread (I didn't try it since the above worked for me):
https://discussions.apple.com/message/18589065#18589065

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An older post said to login to your account within itunes; go to account information; then disable icloud and ping. Since I'm also on 10.6.8 there is no "disable iCloud" option. So this is what I did (and it worked) - from the Account page within iTunes Store (must be logged in):
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I don't know which step - #2 or #3 actually made that login prompt no longer appear, but it doesn't so I'm happy.
Also, I had already disabled "Download updates automatically" in system preferences (and that didn't fix the iTunes problem). Note that I had that disabled that before I updated to 10.6.8 and the 10.6.8 re-enabled it. Not related, just mentioning in case that box needs to be unchecked too.
Other things you can try are in this Reset Warnings tip in this iTunes Windows thread (I didn't try it since the above worked for me):
https://discussions.apple.com/message/18589065#18589065

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An older post said to login to your account within itunes; go to account information; then disable icloud and ping. Since I'm also on 10.6.8 there is no "disable iCloud" option. So this is what I did (and it worked) - from the Account page within iTunes Store (must be logged in):
1. Ping was already disabled/off
2. In the iTunes match section, I clicked "Learn More" then clicked "No thanks". Effectively turning off Match (it gets removed from the sidebar).
3. Under "Settings" I turned off "Recommendations and Ping Postings".
I don't know which step - #2 or #3 actually made that login prompt no longer appear, but it doesn't so I'm happy.
Also, I had already disabled "Download updates automatically" in system preferences (and that didn't fix the iTunes problem). Note that I had that disabled that before I updated to 10.6.8 and the 10.6.8 re-enabled it. Not related, just mentioning in case that box needs to be unchecked too.
Other things you can try are in this Reset Warnings tip in this iTunes Windows thread (I didn't try it since the above worked for me):
https://discussions.apple.com/message/18589065#18589065

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I have the same issue....over 25K songs so iMatch is disabled. I think I am finally at the point where I am going to drop match. No sense in paying for it if I get only get 10% of the benefits and 100% of the hassle.
Any tunes added since it maxed is not seen on other devices. Since it is maxed on my iMac I get iTunes radio ads.
Even though it says my iTunes Match is screwed, most of the content from iTunes Radio is from my personal library with only 1 in 10 songs being something I don't own.
It feels as if iTunes Match and Radio are for people with almost no personal music collection, or their entire collection was purchased from iTunes. Either way it falls short of the hopes I and many others had for it.
I would gladly pay a few bucks more to have iTunes Match work correctly. And Apple has had plenty of time to design, test and implement a solution for users with large collections, yet no solution has appeared. iTunes Radio, being so heavily dependent on my iTunes collection (based on the music it generates), seems to not be much of a bargin considering that I pay for it AND get ads.
Considering the iWorks update debaucle, Apple seems to be dissapointing a lot of people these days. While I still love my Apple hardware and OSX, I can't help but be greatly dissappointed in their lack of attention to detail and their recent all-hype approach to delivering on the software side. They have the money and resources to build extrodinary software, yet they seem to make an effort to deliver what most would consider great products from Microsoft, but sub-standard from Apple.

Why is the iTunes Radio advertisement showing? I'm using the iTunes Match though.

I joined the itunes match last April. It will be expired on next April.
Until now, the itunes radio ads haven't been showed up while using the itunes match.
But Since last week, I listen the ads on the radio like Nissan and so on.
How do I remove the ads on the radio?

This message from William M. is the answer to our problem.
William M.
Re: radio in itunes
Jan 7, 2013 4:48 PM (in response to grcorey)
I'm also using ver. 11.0.1 and have Radio, so it's not a version bug.
Have you deleted the iTunes pref files? Close iTunes and go to your user Library->Preferences. Unless you've changed your OS to do this, the Library folder is invisible in the newer versions of OS X. Open a Finder window, and while holding down the Option key, click on Go in the top menu bar. You'll see your Library there, so click on it and go to the Preferences folder. If you're viewing preferences alphabetically, scroll down to com.apple.iTunes. Delete anything that has those words in the file name (there will probably be about 6 of them). No worry; this won't hurt anything. When you re-open iTunes, new pref files will be created.
Now, since you just entered this topic and weren't a part of the original discussion, I was assuming that your reply was to say that you weren't seeing any Radio option in iTunes. That's what I'm trying to assist with here.
Re-open iTunes and see if anything is improved. If not, can you post a screen shot of your iTunes window?

I bought iTunes Match; nonetheless, on iTunes Radio I routinely get ads. Apple says that with iTunes Match one should not get ads. Whaddup?

I bought iTunes Match; nonetheless, on iTunes Radio I routinely get ads. Apple says that with iTunes Match one should not get ads. Whaddup?

Requiring Match to be switched on, even though we have paid, to get ad free Radio can be costly. Why?
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I have the Itunes match but am getting radio ads after upgrading. How do I get the Itunes radio to play ad-free again?

Hello fortcoins,
It may help to turn iTunes Match off, then back on.
Windows: While holding down the shift key, choose Store > Turn Off iTunes Match.
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How to troubleshoot iTunes Match
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Cheers,
Allen

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