Prevent songs from uploading to Match

I have a number of songs that I have on my machine, but do no want have uploaded to Match (Things such as Christmas Songs). I have unchecked them in iTunes but they still seem to be counting towards my 25,000 song limit on Match
If I delete them, but not trash them, they are removed from the cloud but then I lose visibility on my machine and cannot turn them on when I want to hear them
So the question is how can I have them on the machine but not have Match try to upload them

I also would like to know how I can prevent songs from uploading to iTunes match. I've got all kinds of audio test tracks, songwriting sketches, etc., and about 2000 sample audio tracks that go with a book that I own - I don't want ANY of these things going up to iCloud. It's a waste of resources and time. There should be a check box under Options in the song information window, or something like that, that allows for a track to not be uploaded to iCloud.
Also, unchecking a song doesn't prevent it from uploading to the cloud.

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How can I delete a song from iCloud / iTunes Match, but keep it on my Mac?
I subscribed to iTunes Match a few weeks ago and my entire library was uploaded. I do not want all of my library in the Cloud, especially given that there is a space/song limitation. Any help is appreciated.
Thanks!

Apologies Brandon, we have moved on somewhat from your original question.
What I have done is effectively used Michael's idea. I'll try to explain a little further.
You can run iTunes match on up to 5 computers, and you can edit the iCloud library on any of them. Michael's idea works on the basis that, whilst you can edit the iTunes library, you can't remove songs from other computers.
I have basically the same setup as you, but I also have a MacBook Air, which is running iTunes Match but without any music downloaded so it all streams.
I added the songs on my main library, which then added them to the cloud. When they appeared on my MacBook I deleted them straight away. As there was no local copy I was asked if I wanted to delete them from the cloud, and I said yes. When I went back to my main computer I found that, as expected, they were still there, but the iCloud status is "removed". They are therefore on my library but not in iCloud.
Since then I have run match updates a couple of times and there is no sign as yet that it will try to add them back to the cloud. It's too early to say that this is a definate answer to your problem, but it looks very hopeful.
Our other discussions have moved onto the 25,000 son limit, which I note from your comment you may also be interested in. Watch this space.
If you don't have access to a second computer to run the other library on then look back at Michael's post where he explains how to set it up on your main computer.
Hope that clarifies a bit.

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I keep 50% of my music library on an external HD. I subscribed to iTunes Match to be able to access my entire library when my HD isn't available (traveling, HD in sleep mode, etc.). But iTunes won't play any songs that are stored on my external HD when the HD isn't available, even when the songs were purchased on iTunes, and even when iTunes has matched them and shows them as "purchased." When I try to play the song, iTunes says the external HD isn't available, and offers to allow me to locate the song (which is impossible because I'm not near the external HD). Why won't it use the copy that's stored in iCloud? Isn't this the whole point of iCloud, i.e., to allow me to stream my music library from anywhere?
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I honestly don't think you can do it. Nothing I've found online allows you to do this, which is awful because these songs still show up and play when on shuffle. I've even selected "only show me music on this device" and I still see some songs I've deleted and are only on icloud and I have no option to swipe and delete. I'm with you... forcing me to do this on my pc when every other need for syncing has since been removed is very annoying.

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This is a topic that has been covered in-depth on this forum.
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Deleting either duplicate prevents song from playing. Solution?

I have duplicates. TONS. I went through my library and deleted each and every one individually. All 2000 of them.
Then I started to play my library. Now I'm told the files can't be found. Awesome. All that tedious work and I have to restore the entire library only to have duplicates again.
Prior to deleting, there is only one copy of each song in the media folder. So my files are not the problem. I simply move the media folder over from my external drive and drop it into the current media folder on the computer.
I did a test run. When deleting duplicates, it doesn't matter which one I delete....the song won't play. Any advice on how to keep duplicates from showing up?

If you have true duplicates then there should be two files, one for each duplicate. The files may be identical.
While it is easy to end up with duplicates in a playlist, I'm not sure how to get duplicates in the main library of the exact same file in the exact same location.

How do you prevent songs from playing on iphone (iOS7)?

My iphone keeps playing music that's not on it. I have albums with songs that I don't wish to hear and didn't download when I purchased them. Some have never been on my Mac. I also have Christmas music that I don't want to hear unless it's December. But my phone keeps shuffling these songs up. Or the interviews that come with some albums… it's relentless.
When I tap on the listing button, it indicates which song on the album is playing and in the cases I have looked at, has the cloud download button beside it.
What I'd like to know is how to keep these songs in their boxes until I want to hear them. Any ideas? For what it's worth, I don't understand how this bug/feature exists. I don't want to see this music, let alone listen to it (and be forced to stop what I'm doing to skip the track).
Thanks,
Ken

Thanks. That worked. I already had the automatic download settings off but didn't know about the hide songs option. Everything looks better now.
After doing so, most of the songs vanished but not all. I did a restore on the device and while trying to synch the songs back onto the phone, which took a while to get started (the usage bar in iTunes only showed 'apps' and 'other', lots of 'other', meanwhile, the Music app on the phone indicated that it was empty), I noticed a section in itunes under all the checklists that seemed to be related to manually added songs. It's gone now and I don't really want to try to get it back but it implied that if you manually dragged a song onto the device, the section would auto-generate and the song would show up there. Extra weirdness is that the song is one of those never downloaded songs that's greyed out when looking at the album.
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Can i delete songs from ipod touch once i upload them to icloud, can i delete songs from ipod touch once i upload them to icloud

once you upload songs,photos or documents fron ipod touch to icloud, can you delete them from ipod touch to free up memory from ipod touch and can you access them from icloud without downloading to ipod?

You can't upload music to iCloud unless you are an iTunes Match subscriber, and if you are the songs are uploaded or matched from the iTunes library on your computer, not your device. Photos are only uploaded to Photo Stream temporarily (30 days), for up to 1000 photos so it's not meant to be a permanent storage option. The uploaded photos are also generally of lower quality than the originals on your device. Also, only photos taken on your device after turning on Photo Stream are uploaded. Finally, when you turn Photo Stream on, uploaded photos will be streamed back to your device in a Photo Stream album (so it actually uses some of your memory rather than saving it). As for documents, only iWork documents are uploaded.
If you really want to free up storage on your device consider more permanent cloud storage services such as DropBox (which will handle photos and all documents).

IPhone would not let me delete individual song from library, tried deleting album to remove music from local storage, now certain songs from album do not show in iTunes match on iPhone only on computer

Upon completion of matching and uploading my very large library of music (+15,000), I wanted to see how iTunes Match worked on my iPhone. I started it and selected the first album in the list to listen to. I let it play the entire album and then decided that I wanted to remove certain songs off of the iPhone's local storage. Tried to delete the individual songs and it would not let me. So I figured that I would go back and just delete the album. After selecting delete I went back to listen to one of the songs on the album and realized that it deleted several of the songs from the iTunes Match completely. When pulling iTunes up on my computer the songs are still there but does not give me the option to upload to iTunes Match.
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Then tried power cycling. (Still shows the music)
Then I tried power cycling again and resyncing the phone and the iPhone still shows the music as it was on the phone.
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Actually Michael I know exactly how to delete.. The iPhone would not let me swipe to the left to delete the individual song, so I went to the album view and did it there.. The issue I am having is a bug because it removed 3/4 of the albums availablity off my iPhone.. You post proved no help because it is basic troubleshooting which, if you read my post, I have already done.. I did however figure out how to fix my issue on my own.. Basically I had to remove the album from my iTunes on my computer and upload it again to iTunes Match..

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