Itunes skipping tracks, Apple ID/password combo suspected

Installed Itunes Match yesterday as it seemed a good way to have my tracks available everywhere. My library consists of a mix of ripped CD's and tracks bought via the ITunes Store (2007-present), all very legal. The music itself is in a library on a Mac Mini server. Via home sharing that works fine as long as i'm in range of my Wifi/Ethernet. So no problems at all on my IMac, Apple TV or any IOS device.
After the installation of Match it run through my library and found around 5600 tracks, after a while all these tracks where either matched or uploaded. only a few showed errors, mostyly explainable (max size). So far so good, ready to listen!
But when i turn on Match on any of my devices (IOS, IMac, Apple TV) i guess around 99% of my tracks get skipped, ATV showing the message "material not found". Now it seems i have the most succes with the most recent bought tracks, but even that is not entirely true for all tracks. If I show all tracks on an IPhone I can see there are as many tracks as Match tells me it matched. They show up in the list with a small ICloud symbol beside them, but they get skipped when played and can not be downloaded.
Now i suspect a password issue: i had to change my PW earlier this year (around january) and at some time I logged in on 2 separate Apple ID's.
Now it seems (but hard to prove...) that:
All music I bought on my present Apple ID/password combination is playing well,
all music I recently bought on the other Apple ID is not playing,
all music I bought on my former Apple ID/password combination (pre-january) is not playing,
all music I ripped on my former Apple ID/password combination is not playing.
So a conclusion: only music imported (either bought or ripped) on the same Apple ID (with password) you use with your Itunes Match can be played. I will test this by buying and ripping some tracks under my present ID/password. I expect them to work well.
Can anyone come tot the same conclusion?
Are there solutions to this problem? (other then again buying/ripping 5000+ tracks on my present Apple ID...)

Okay, just bought the new Racoon album in the ITunes store. I did that from my Mac Mini server so it blended in with the rest of my music. ITunes Match did its work and made almost instant a match in the cloud. A few minutes later I logged out and in to Match on my IPhone and there the tracks showed up like advertised.
This still supports my claim that this has to do with the Apple ID/password combination.
Now I will try to rip a CD directly into my server and see if this will give the result that it will be matched as well. i will do that with an album that at present is skipped in my lists when i try to play it out of the cloud (although it claims to be matched).

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