Will iTunes Match send my personal recordings in the cloud?

I'm very interesting in iTunes Match. However, as a music producer, I'm concerned about my recording material currently sitting in iTunes. How do I protect them from being sucked into the cloud for every one else to access? Will there be privacy features that rectifity this concern?

http://www.apple.com/icloud/features/
"If you want the benefits of iTunes in the Cloud for music you haven’t purchased from iTunes, iTunes Match is the perfect solution. It’s built right into the iTunes app on your Mac or PC and the Music app on your iOS devices. And it lets you store your entire collection, including music you’ve imported from CDs or purchased somewhere other than iTunes. For just $24.99 a year.2
Here’s how it works: iTunes determines which songs in your collection are available in the iTunes Store. Any music with a match is automatically added to your iCloud library. Since there are more than 20 million songs in the iTunes Store, most of your music is probably already in iCloud. All you have to upload is what iTunes can’t match. Which is much faster than starting from scratch. Once your music is in iCloud, you can stream and store it on any of your devices. Even better, all the music iTunes matches plays back from iCloud at 256-Kbps AAC DRM-free quality — even if your original copy was of lower quality."
We don't work for Apple so all we know is what we read off their pages, or from our own experience of a service (and since this is still in beta, nobody should be passing on any first-hand experience in violation of non-disclosure). From the looks of it any music you have that they don't have you will have to proactively upload to their site in order for it to be available. Then too, any music you upload is only available to you; it is not a file sharing service! So if you have a 128k MP3 that they have, even if you didn't buy it from them, they will match it with a 256k AAC file. If you have a 128k file they don't have, presumably it would be stored as the original. Either way only you have access to whatever is on your cloud account. The is what I interpret from reading the above link.

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Hello,
I was originally happy with the new Family Share capabilities of IOS8. However, happiness turned to disappointment when I discovered that iTunes Match content CANNOT be shared amongst family members unless they are using the App Store ID where the iTunes Match subscription is based, defeating the the benefits of the Family Share.
My household consists of a Macbook Pro (OS X 10.9.5) with the iTunes (11.4.18) Library , 4 iPhones (2 x iPhone 6, 1 iPhone 5C, and 1 iPhone 4S all running IOS8) and 4 iPads (2 iPad Air and 2 iPad II all running IOS8). Before the Family share, the IOS devices shared the iTunes match library where the users could select which songs they wanted to download, and purchases made by them could be added to the library. Two of the 4 sets of devices are owned by my children, who are in their early teens. Why is it stated that you can "share music" among family members when that capability actually seems very limited with this new Family Share setup. Once the App Store ID is set to the Apple ID of the individual user, such as one of my children, the library and selections they originally had were removed and the option to turn iTunes Match on or off under Music Setup turned into "Subscribe to iTunes Match", which would cost each family member an additional $24.99 a year for a service that cost nothing for my other family members.
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In short, is there any plan to give customers the benefits of the Family Share plan, and truly allow the sharing of one of the most shared resources in at least our family, the iTunes Match collection? Another question is WHY is iTunes match not a supported part of the Family Share?
Thanks in advance for any insight that can be provided on this issue!
Regards,
John Finocchiaro
[email protected]

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Hippogreen,
I chose not to follow your Item 4, ie, I am ripping new ALAC tracks directly over the lower bitrate tracks in my existing Library. I just did not want all the extra labor involved in recreating playlists when I reimport, and I did not want to lose the metadata of playcounts, date original imported to library, etc.
If you do as I am doing and want the new ALAC track to directly replace the existing ones in your Library, your Item 1 is relevant:
1) If I have heavily corrected the metadata of a track and it is substantially different from the info provided by iTunes (when I re-rip the CD into ALAC format), how will iTunes know that it is a duplicate? I assume I will have to manually de-duplicate in such a situation. I am thinking of uploaded rather than matched tracks.
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http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=trackinfotocdtracks
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