More than 25k songs - What Now?

I have been collecting music for a couple of decades now. In fact my CD collection is very large and have been putting CDs into cases on the shelf for years. It took me six months transferring all my CDs to a (192k) mp3 iTunes library. iTunes Match has brought new excitement for my music library as I receive upgraded fidelity (256k) and the ability to access it anywhere on my iPhone or iPad. But, there is a bump in the road for me.
I started a brand new iTunes library and have all my music in one folder on an external 1TB hard drive. I have been adding my music one folder at a time and all has been working perfectly. You could say I am starting from scratch but also have a back up of the main folder in case all goes south on me. The issue I see coming up is the fact I think I will run out of space in the cloud. Big question is what will really happen when I hit 25k limit? What will I have to do in order to get access to all my music?
Apple.. Is there any way you can allow users to purchase another 25k for $25? Having iTunes Match is an amazing opportunity to have an entire music collection of backed-up music in a cloud so one can access it from anywhere. The only drawback is the 25k limit. Either way, for whats it worth, the service seems to be working for me, but the limit is making me drop 7k songs. That is a real downside.
The ability to travel around with many genres of music is amazing.
Any help Apple would be greatly appricated.
Thanks.

At the moment the 25k limit is applied very strictly, and there is no option to increase it. Many of us are very hopeful that some options will be added in the future, but I doubt it will be for a while.
I have got round his by setting up a separate library which will be less than 25,000 songs, but the only way you can have more songs than that is if the extras are purchased from iTunes.
Leave feedback for Apple. The more that do so, the more likely they will make this change.
Until then, as I understand it, when you reach 25,000 songs then iTunes will just stop matching or uploading them.

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