download by clicking the iCloud download button

The Apple website says "

Matched songs in your local library will not automatically be transcoded to 256 kbps AAC. To obtain a higher quality transcoding, download the matched songs from iCloud.

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Which is exactly what I want to do; obtain a higher quality transcoding by downloading the matched songs from iCloud.

The cloud icon next to the tune does not provide a download option in my iTunes (it does provide for upload !), so my question remains, how to provoke a download of the transcoded (to 256 kbps) tune ?

Sorry WC, but it is not clear how I can download a tune, that I have just deleted, and presumably no longer appears in the iTunes Music lists ..... I must be missing something ?

The reason to download is to get the higher quality transcoding into my library on my iMac (for playing off line from the iCloud).

Thanks for the tip Winston.

For the sake of clarity, I have uploaded around 10,000 tunes, and have used Match to put as many of them as possible in iCloud. (I have several hundreds that didn't make it)

I therefore have many with iCloud status Matched, Uploaded, and some Duplicate, Waiting and Ineligible.

It is the Matched and Uploaded ones that I would like "refreshed in my iTunes library to get the "offline - with iCloud switched off" advantage of playing higher grade recordings on my mobile devices.

What would be your suggestion for performing this iTunes delete and iCloud download process, without losing music feom iTunes ?

For example how do I identify in the iTunes library that music which is Matched or Uploaded status ?

Is would be ideal to find a process of doing this downoad through the iTunes interface.

Thanks for your help and suggestions

Stuart

Whoops sorry, I meant to say I wanted to download the Matched songs, as presumably there is no transformation of Uploaded to higher grade recordings ..

in iTunes the iCloud status clearly shows the different status of each music such as: Matched, Uploaded, Duplicate, Waiting and Ineligible.

Winston the status shown in the URL you gave http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4124 show just anomalies. There are two other status: Matched and Uploaded shown.

So take a look at http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4915

This solves my problem:

1 First I needed to delete all Matched in my iTunes (select all, then Delete, BUT do not click the checkbox to also delete the item from iCloud.)

2 The Matched ones remain in the iTunes list, with an iCloud icon with a "down arrow" inside the iCloud icon, signifying "can be downloaded".

3 Then select "all" those Matched ones again and with cntrl click and chose Download from the drop down menu, and hey presto, iTunes starts to download and replace all the previously deleted Matched songs in your iTunes library with their clean 256kb version. The Matched status stays in place and the iCloud icon with the downarrow disappears one by one as each song is downloaded.

4. Itunes seems to be downloading 3 songs simultaneously and takes on average about 3-4 seconds a song on my iMAC

I hope this helps you too.

Thanks for your help and ideas, but this definately seems to be working ...am still downloading at the moment.

I'll let u know if there were any hiccups during the download process.

Stuart