This item was not added to iCloud because an error occurred.

For what it's worth, I had one specific album that I really wanted in the cloud, but it refused to go. After reading this article I converted all the songs in the album to AAC and deleted the originals. Worked like a charm. Never would have considered converting the files. Obviously iCloud still has a few glitches. Love it anyway! So convenient.

The tracks I had that had the slash through them I converted to AAC in iTunes and it worked. They uploaded immediately. The tracks I had with an exclimation point next to them I converted the ID3 tags to the latest version (2.4 i think) and then they immediately uploaded.

This worked for me, hope it helps.

It worked slightly different for me - i'm still having an issue of tracks added to my library until i have closed and re-opened itune - thats a whole other story . . that is relevent however ..

I followed the suggested method of "creating an mp3" and then because of the above problem i closed and re-opened itunes so the newly created tracks would show. Because i had closed and re-opened the tracks marked with "error" try to upload/match again - i then hit "add to icloud" on the duplicate tracks and miraculously the original track matches all of a sudden! so i then deleted the duplicates.

This is great because as previously mentioned by others some of these tracks are on playlists so i dont want to got through re-adding them etc, but this got the originals working for some starnge reason - and im pretty sure its not ust because i closed and re-opened itunes because i had already dont that a few times since my library finished matching so wouldve fixed itself before now.

still, very annoyed that i am having to spend my time searching for solutions, havn't had the guts to enable match on my iphone yet for fear of royally screwing up my playlists - i go on holiday next week and would be very angry with no music with me, and dont have any time to mess around with it if it goes wrong! kinda trialling it on my ipad - my favourite playlists arent loading so not happy after taking the punt on paying the subscription.. dont get me wrong i will persist because i know in theory match is great...it just needs a little time that's all!

select the ones that failed upload, right-click and pick convert to AAC. Once converted, delete the original songs that had failed, highlight the new AAC versions and click upload to icloud. That should work w/o problems - fixed all my issues.

That must be correct. I just added Van Halen's "A Different Kind of Truth" from Amazon ($2.99 sale) and no problem. But I uploaded "The Orange Mountain Music Philip Glass Sampler" from Amazon and it was removed from iCloud. Obviously, when you pay, no problem, but freebies from Amazon are not eligible. Go figure. 👿

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That was a helpful tip! It works! I've written a step-by step walkthrough with screenshots for those who might get confused along the way:

http://www.thermalexposure.com/2012/05/13/itunes-icloud-match-error-fix-this-ite m-was-not-added-to-icloud-because-an-error-occurred/

I too have several songs from CD's i copied into iTunes in lossless format on my iMac. (i call that the master library) I have iTunes sharing service.

95% of them are in the cloud fine. However there are 10 with cloud icons with no exclamation point inside them and 10 with with cloud icons with exclamation points in them. All of the rest of my songs have no cloud icon next to them and they appear in my iPhone music list fine. Those songs that do have the cloud icons (either with or without the exclamation point inside) appear on my iPhone but are greyed out and CANNOT BE PLAYED from my iPhone. They play on my iMac in iTunes however. Have you discovered how to handle this? I even tried re copying the CD with the majority of the problems but it made no difference.

nope...3+years later this is still an issue for me. Makes me regret ever giving apple my money in the first place this is stupid because all of these songs were uploaded to icloud from my old laptop, then downloaded from icloud to my Macbook and now trying to upload them back to icloud after reactivating itunes match to get them on my new desktop computer as well I keep getting a crap load of errors and failed uploads for half of my songs and trying to convert them on my macbook I get another error that the disk could not be read from or written to. This kind of *****, all I want is to have the music that I paid for transfered ont MY computer using the service that I PAID for but I guess thats too much to ask for.

I have an even worse version of this problem. Lots of tracks that were in iCloud no longer are, and they are also now unplayable on my iPod. It is as though iTunes has deleted them, and I no longer have the CDs.

Also right clicking on each track does not give me the option 'convert to mp3'

I have this same issue and I've seen how to fix it, however, I'm not doing that for several hundred songs. With that in mind and given that this issue is 6 years old and still exists, I need to ask: Apple, when are you going to fix this or are you just going to Microsoft it?

Thanks.

Hi,

The problem is most likely to be with individual tracks rather than a bug in the iTunes Match process.

Sometines trying to add to iCloud music libray works but if it doesn't, You should delete the existing files from your library and either readd them from your back up, from your original source or rerip them from the original CDs. You can of course try converting them from MP3 to AAC or vice versa and try adding the new version to the iCloud music library.

Jim

The answer is quite simple.

1) Go to iTunes

2) Go to that particular song which showed this error on your other device

3) You'll see a cloud with exclamation which says the above-mentioned error

4) Right click and "add the song to icloud library"

5) Wait for the song to upload in the library

6) Woohoo now please check your device. The songs will be automatically downloaded and ready to play(if you have enabled this setting) or there will an option to download (usual cloud icon)

cheers

VK

having the same problem. any suggestions?

Some songs say they're ineligible for iTunes, even if they were bought from iTunes, because certain artists and labels elected to make their music ineligible.