Rated albums vs. rated songs in iTunes Match

I have a smart playlist to gather up all my five-star rated songs; however, there are several missing songs in that playlist when I use the iOS Music app. The reason? The missing songs are not rated five-star, but the album itself is. My solution is to systematically go through the playlist and find the songs that have a grey rating which means the album itself has the rating. I did a few albums this way when the option put into iTunes.
Anyone know of another work around?
I did try putting "Album Rating is five stars" in the rules, but it then added entire albums including non-rated songs from that album.
I'm using all the current versions of iTunes, iOS and am on a new Mac Mini at home. Phone is a 5.
Thanks!

Hi,
Read this user doc. https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-4113.
One thing you could try if you still have the original CDs is to re-rip the discs on a different format e.g.mp3 instead of m4a or vice versa at at least 256 kbps - still no guarantee of match. The reason for using a different format is that match remembers previous uploads even those deleted from cloud some time ago.
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