Music collection on different macs iTunes match

Good morning,
I look on different forums to try to find the following:
I would like to buy iTunes Match but our music collection is on 3 different mac (2 imacs and one macbook).
Off course we don't have the same music on all devices but we have a lot of redundance between myself, wife and kid.
SO if I choose iTunes Match will the music from the 3 devices go into the cloud and we will be able to choose what we want on our device.
I had to tell you that one of the iMac is not at home. IIt is where I spend my workweek. (so not on my homesharing)
Thanks,
Sorry for the language mistake but not a native english speaker.
Have a great day,
Christophe

What you want to do is possible. When you subscribe to iTunes Match all the computers/devices will need to use the same Apple ID. Add one computer at a time to iTM so as not to cause conflicts in the scanning.

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