Transfer file to iPhone with wire rather than use iTunes match

Hi, I have iTunes match. I create DJ mixes and my own tunes so every time I want to put them on phone I have to currently:
1. Save them to itunes
2. Upload them to iTunes match (which takes around 43 days)
3. Wait another 3 weeks
4. Download them to iphone
Now this process has slowly started to irritate the absolute sh!tters out of me especially when on my old android phone I just plugged it in and dragged them over - thus 200MB file done in less than a minute - compared to around 67 days using iPhone.
Do I have to just turn off iTunes Match and never ever user it again? I suppose I could do this but I do quite like the facility to download any track at any time so WHY CANT I JUST F%%$KIN DRAG MY MUSIC ACROSSS FFS.
Any help would be much appreciated, thanks

It's ok I've [sort of] solved this, it's a bit long winded which is what I expect nowadays from Apple but at least it doesn't allow anyone to access their iPhone filesystem - god forbid.
Basically you have to turn off iTunes match on iphone, plug in iPhone - you may have to 'set up as new iPhone' which scared me a bit as it isn't new - I 've just never plugged it in... anyway it will then start 'syncing' which scared the sh1t out of me, but it seemed to be ok. Then you can drag files from iTunes into your iPhone viola!
I'm beginning to think iTunes Match is probably great for someone that buys all their music from iTunes and only ever listens to individual tracks/albums, but for me when I mainly listen to 2-3 hour long mixes, none of which are obviously in apples matching library - the upload speeds are just too slow.
Still, the frustration is in the v poor iTunes interface - the fact that the progress bar gives no actual indication where it's up to or what it's doing. And another thing is when you try and import an unrecognised file format such as FLAC or AVI. OK this is frustrating in itself but ignoring the fact you can't, YOU JUST DONT GET ANY ERROR MESSAGE - NOTHING, it doesn't say sorry it can't import the file, iTunes doesn't support it. It just does NOTHING - so the obvious assumption is that it HAS ACTUALLY IMPORTED IT. And then when you go to play/view said file sometimes ages after you realise that it didn't actually import.
These user interface errors I learned to avoid whilst writing computer programs in GCSE computing when I was 15 years old. So maybe Apple need to hire some new developers it's shocking.
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