Music all in cloud and pix gone

Question

GRRRR.... I have an iphone 5s.  Until downloading the new IOS or maybe it was when I paid for that music match thing, everything changed.
I had that music match thing (I'm sorry I can't remember what its called) since they offered it.  I don't even know why I got it because I have no idea what it does.  I think my daughter told me to get it.  At any rate when I initially paid for it nothing changed on my phone or anywhere as far as I could tell. 
Then it came up for the yearly renewal and renewed automatically.  I wouldn't have renewed it because again I'm not sure what the heck it does.
Then I noticed my ios on my phone updated as well.  So I'm not sure what changed on my phone but something did.  I listen to all my thousands of songs when I'm in my car.  Well I can't do that any more because the music is no longer on my phone it has a cloud symbol by it.  So now unless I use the data on my ATT plan I don't have any music.  How do I get my music back to my phone and off the cloud?
Secondly, I think my photos changed when the IOS recently updated (or maybe it was that match thing I have no idea).  Now all of a sudden my phone has all 5,000 photos on it from Aperture.  I never had that before and I don't want them there. But how did that happen???  Other then the Match and an IOS update nothing changed. 
But worse the photos that I use to have on my phone are gone.  Not the ones I took with my phone but photo back when I had Mobile me... I made an album and transfered those pix (somehow) to my phone.  They were all there until last week. Now they are gone and as far as I know I don't have them anywhere.  They are not in aperture because they were not taken with my Nikon. 
Some were old pix that I scanned in a few years ago.  Some were sent to me and I moved to my older phones and each time I got a new phone I moved the pix.  Again they were on my new iphone 5s as recently as January cuz I was showing  them to a friend.  Now they are gone.
To sum it up, 2 questions:
How do I get my music back into my iphone?
Any suggestions on where to find my old ipod album?
Susan

Answer 1

There are two ways to sync music across your computers and devices (e.g., iPads, iPhones).
One (the "traditional" method) is to connect a cable between the PC or Mac and the device, open iTunes, and sync all or some of your music.
The cloud method requires an iTunes Match subscription ($25/year in the US, £22/year in UK). With this method, you sign up, and all your iTunes music is copied up to the cloud, where it then becomes available on all devices. If you stop the subscription you lose cloud access to the music - however, you should keep a copy of the music in its original location (e.g., the PC you started with), or download everything from the cloud to another authorized computer, to keep a local copy just in case. If you're not sure whether or not you have an iTunes Match subscription active, check your emails from Apple, or just try to sign into iTunes Match on the iPad (Settings - iTunes - iTunes Match) and see if it lets you.
"Device backup" is a separate thing from "syncing". You can back up an iPad to a computer or to iCloud. Much of your information is backed up - however, it does NOT include music. If the Apple representative told you that an iCloud backup would restore your music, he was mistaken.
I don't know if that helps you
Matt