Grayed Out Songs

If I delete a track from iTunes, it disappears from the iTunes listing on my computer. There is, then, nowhere for the download icon to appear.

All of the songs in that album, and others, originated from disks. They were in my ext hd library and went up to iTunes when I bought Match. Why would I not be able to download songs I own back to my computer from whence they came? I see no copyright issue.

I've a Genius appointment tomorrow. Maybe they can clear this mess up. Match does some things well but is really goofy in other areas. Thanks for your help.

I did as you suggested, Michael. Here is the result; it is the same as before. Rats!

The Genius solved it. If Match says the song is Matched or Uploaded but does not show the Download icon, the song exists on the computer hard drive. (How they got there is beyond me for most of them but more later on how to avoid it.) The fix amazed me: select a Matched/Uploaded song with no Download icon. Delete it. It magically reappears with the download icon and is removed from the computer so it doesn't take up disk space. Avoiding the problem in the future. Now that the internal hd is cleaned off, the idea is to keep songs from being loaded there. If a CD is imported into iTunes, it is first stored on the hd before it goes to the cloud. Therefore, after Match is updated, delete it from iTunes and all should be well. ITunes Match is definately a beta. Your solution, Michael would, I think, have achieved the desired result. I cleaned up the library by deleting the iTunes entry; you cleaned it up by deleting the library itself.