Replacing lower quality files with better files on iTunes Match

I have an iTunes library that is years old so some of the music files are of a lower quality than the files that are now on Match. Rather than ripping these CDs again to iTunes, is there a way of replaceing the old files with the Match files on iCloud?
Thanks,
Larry

Hi,
If the tracks are match, you can delete the original and download the upgraded version. If the track is uploaded, you will need to rerip your CDs to get better quality.
Jim

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Warning... Long and Thorough.
I've had iTunes Match for about a year, and I hate how I can't listen to anything but B sides on my iPhone, basically the music that *****, which really ****** me off. I have a commute that is more than an hour each way. If a song matches on iTunes, it greys on iPhone and I can no longer play it, except on my PC iTunes. The songs that don't match on iTunes, are basically the b side types that noone cares about, and that's all that's left. So I'll cue up a hot track to get me pumped up for work, and iPhone will display the track title briefly, then skip to a song it can play. So instead of the hot radio hits I want to hear I am forced to listen to celtic music, classic, or opera. It f'n *****. I hate iTunes Match. It does NOT do what it promised. I can't believe I paid Apple to f*** up my iPhone music library. I have a frigging 32GB phone with nothing but crap music on it. Music is my life, it gets me going. Only swear words can properly express what I'd like to say to the iTunes Match developers.
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