New music is downloading and not showing with iCloud icon

Strutter72 wrote:

However, I just purchased an album in iTunes and it has downloaded it to the mac - I thought that it would just be 'in the cloud' rather than downloading??

This is normal. All purchases made from the iTunes Store download. You are responsible for backing up your personal data.

Strutter72 wrote:

I just want purchases to be made and accessed through the iCloud with no downloding - is this possible????

No. Not at this time.

Strutter72 wrote:

How do I get this album to show wth the iCloud logo? What happens if I delete this album - will it still show up in iTunes??

After the purchase is downloaded to iTunes, back it up, then delete it from the library. It will still show up as streams.

You should also read this: FAQ: Why iTunes Match can NOT be used as a backup!

Strutter72 wrote:

I've also deleted the Library on the Mac HDD, held down the 'alt' key whilst starting up iTunes and created a new library.

Why?

Strutter72 wrote:

It then immediately starts to copy the album down to the Mac.

This is normal if you have items in the download queue.

Strutter72 wrote:

I click on the 'Match' button and it scans etc and now the album cover has a cloud logo on it, but if I do a 'get info', the songs are still looking in the iTunes folder where it has 'helpfully' downloaded the album.

There is no reason to use the "update iTunes Match" command in the Store menu. All iTunes Store purchases are automatically added to iTunes Match.

To properly utilize iTunes Match's streaming feature the music must be deleted from within the iTunes browser. Do not delete the music from the finder. To fix this problem delete the tracks from iTunes and do not hide the tracks in the clous.

Strutter72 wrote:

Seems I'm stuck in a loop. I don't want to have to keep having copies downloaded or I'm back at square one. Is there a preference where I can stop the copying back of music? It doesn't happen on any other album that I've purchased, just this one.

If you have one particular album that keeps showing up in your download queue, then make sure you get it downloaded, back it up to an external HDD, delete it from the library then contact iTunes Store support and ask them to delete it from the download queue.

Good. Glad I was able to help you get it sorted out.

Helped me too. Your'e a genius. Thanks!