Manual Sync vs. iTunes Match?

Can I sync a subset of songs from my Mac to my iPhone manually
        for songs I want to listen to when out of cellular range,
        for songs that do not "match" and
        for songs I want to listen to in ALAC format?
I assume I can listen to my other songs via iTunes Match in 256-AAC format,
        streamed over a wireless Internet or cellular data connection. True?

no if the song is not checked it will not play in iTunes.
so the issue will be that if you want to play songs in iTunes that are not on your ipod (i.e. unchecked) you will have to check them and then remember to uncheck them b4 you synch the iPod

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ChristianSyl wrote:
Hmmm, ok. I guess that this is definitively unclear... I did removed the actual physical files from my drive, actually just backed them up somewhere else... And in addition to that it was also confusing to have iCloud and local files in iTunes....
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So what happens when I buy some music in the iTunes store? Isn't it automatically just added in iTunes match? Note that I haven't bought new music since i started using imatch.
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