Lost tracks from itunes match

ive lost all the music on my ipod touch,i downloaded 7000 songs on itunes match but theyve disappeared, has this happened to anyone else?

The same thing happened to me. I downloaded the ones I wanted (took me ages!), then I changed it so it would only show the songs I had chosen. But it hadn't downloaded some, and had added some I didn't even pick. So I turned itunes match off then on again, and all the songs were gone. Unless I went back to Show All Music and all the songs were there with the cloud like you say. So I had to download them all again by pressing the little cloud on each song. I tried it again last night, same thing happened, I lost them all! Whats up with this thing. Do you lose all the tracks every time you turn itunes match off? And need to download them all again? Hope you can help us Michael

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ASSUMPTIONS: You're in iTunes on your computer, logged into your iCloud account.
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Thank you for visiting Apple Support Communities.
I see you experiencing issues with iTunes Match on your computers but not on your iOS devices. I would recommend going through the troubleshooting steps in the articles below.
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Can't download certain songs from iTunes match

Last night I extacted a full album from a CD to my PC laptop via iTunes.
All track names were detected by gracenote and all 12 songs were exacted and showing up in iTunes except the artwork was missing for some reason?
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Today, on my desktop, I turned on iTunes match and I can see the album and all 12 songs.
There is a download button next to each track and I attempted to download all 12 songs. Most of them downloaded except 4 songs for some reason?
The download button is NOT greyed out, it's black, but when I click on it iTunes does nothing. The songs were not downloaded from iTunes match and I have no idea why? No error message....it just doesnt want to download those 4 songs.
Troubleshooting:
-Turned off itunes match. Restarted iTunes and turned iTunes Match back on. Tried to download the songs again, download button is black but same problem.
-Signed out of my Apple account and singed back on. Tried to download the songs again, download button is black but same problem.
-Deauthorized computer, re-authorized computer, updated iTunes match. Tried to download the songs again, download button is black but same problem.
I don't get it? Why would some of the tracks download but not all of them when the entire track list is present. 12/12 songs are showing up but iTunes Match would only let me download 8/12 songs.

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