iTunes Match playing the wrong song

I had this problem too. This solved it for me:-

1) Deactivate Match on IOS device in Settings/Music

2)Deselect Show all Music in Settings/Music

3) Delete all music on the device in Settings/General/Usage

4) Reactivate iTunes Match and Show All Music in Settings/Music

I have this problem, except it's only on one device. On my iOS devices, the song plays fine. On my iMac, great. On my MBP, though, it plays a different song on the same album. It's Hozier's "Take Me to Church." I've turned Match on and off to no avail. Not sure what's happening.

This totally worked for me!

Keepers1221 solution works on my MBP.

You have to delete all songs (no in iCloud) before turning match back on. I think that clears the indexing.

Hello, I have a similar problem: sometimes iTunes Match matches another version of the song. For example, I ripped my CD Brothers in Arms (Remastered) of Dire Straits and despite iTunes has the album, iTunes Match matches some tracks from another album, for examples "Money for nothing" of Brothers in arms (remastered) is matched with "Money for nothing" of the compilation "Sultans of Swing - The very best..." which is another version!!! This happens quite often.

The possible solutions are two: force iTunes Match to match the right song version/album or force iTunes Match to upload the right version from my Mac, but I don't know how to do that. Can you help me or do have another solution? (the solution above doesn't work for me, iOS device and Apple TV are still playing the bad matched version song).

thanks

max

This is what helped me, and I don't have iTunes Match, I have Apple Music. I was having the same problems of wrong songs playing on my iPhone but yet the correct song would play on my Mac. Here's how I fixed it without having to delete anything:

1) Turn off "Show Apple Music" in Settings/Music

2) Turn off "iCloud Music Library" in Settings/Music

3) Turn them both back on and BOOM, it plays the correct songs.

Christopher,

NO WAY that works for me, just to let you and everyone else know. As long as Apple continues to employ its outdated song matching algorithm, rampant mismatching will happen to me and everyone who desires to consolidate audio collection with Apple Music and stream on demand from the supporting Cloud Library. Apple simply must change to a song matching algorithm like Amazon Music uses, which analyzes the audio itself to determine an accurate match in its database or make the audio upload if no match is available. Until then, as an Apple Music subscriber, I'm not getting full benefits, since Apple cannot be relied on to handle my personal audio collection accurately.

I have the same issue with Use Somebody by Kings of Leon - instead some other song I have not heard of before plays in its place (I assume the one mentioned earlier in this thread). I have tried the suggestions by keepers1221 and Christopherjacobs but these have not resolved the issue for me. Anyone know how we can get this raised with Apple - is there an email address? This obviously affects a lot of people and seems to be this particular track. I would hope they would want to have some kind of fix.

2 years later and this is STILL happening with the same songs!!!

Come on Apple.Why is there no way to report mismatches so they can fix the problem.

Yeah, I'm getting it too. Primal Scream Vanishing Point album, track three (Kowalski) plays number five (If They Move, Kill 'Em). When it comes to track number five, it plays it again. I've tried importing it and reimporting it numerous times. It's extremely disappointing.