iOS 6 iTunes Match - How to download single song

i can't believe that the auto download feature doesn't work anymore as soon as i get unlimited download from my provider...

Apple become yourself again ;-)

I have an audiobook that is over 100 tracks long and a few GBs in size. I simply cannot believe that there is no way that I can download a single track from that without having to make a playlist for the whole thing. I simply cannot stream it because my cell provider's 3G speeds just aren't fast enough to allow any tracks to be played without skips and my docks won't recognize a streaming track being played as legit so I can't listen through my car unless the track is downloaded. Plus I don't want to eat up many GBs on my phone when I only need a couple of tracks per day.

I don't know why Apple decided to take away the individual track download feature that iOS5 had. It was perfect for me. This new system in iOS 6+ just doesn't work and makes me want to quit using iTunes Match altogether (since I can't just manually drag the tracks I want to listen to to my phone before I leave the house). Maybe it was because Apple didn't like seeing all of the little iCloud buttons next to each track? Perhaps just give us a setting to turn it back on if we want to. Apple has ruined iTunes Match for me. I really hope they bring this feature back in the next iOS update.

Glad I found this thread.

It's ludicrous to remove this feature. As people have pointed out, you must either play the song - and play it in full mind, as plying only the first 30 seconds didnt download it for me - or download the whole album.

The latter is not going to happen for most music fans as, if you're like me, have hundreds of songs by random artists unavailable on iTunes that you've grouped. So for me I've a Random Dance album - 500 plus songs - I created myself as a compilation - not a chance im downloading all them just for a handful i fanct listening too.

I'd happily leave iTunes Match turned on all the time if it didnt drain my battery from 100% to nothing in the matter of 5 hours.

All seems good now, with 6.1.