iTunes Match not working in iTunes 11.1

Same problem here. Since updating to 11.1, I can no longer access my songs in the cloud. Everything works fin on my iPhone still.

Whatever you do.... DON'T turn off and then back on iTunes Match on your phone.... it won't work after you do. It WAS working on my phone (NOT in iTunes 11.1) before I did that. Now it is waiting continuously for iTunes match to reload.

Um - I'm paying $25 a year for iTunes Match as is everyone else here too! I know that's not a lot in the grand scheme of things on an individual basis, but It would be nice if Apple would keep it running, no matter what, considering we're paying EXTRA for it. Not to mention it handshakes with the new iTunes Radio to make it ad free, which is a new service they're touting. At the very least, Apple could be aware of it over the phone and on their websites, which it appears from those that have called into Apple, and looking at their system's status page that they have no idea it's even down. Makes me wonder what's going in Cupertino these days.

I'm now getting

'The shared library “iTunes Match” is not accepting connections at this time. Please try again later.'

When I try and update my iTunes Match on my mac. Is anyone else now getting this? Sounds like they've took the servers offline.

That is happening to me too! Mine was working fine around 6:30EST last night but that was the last time I used it, hadn't until early afternoon today and I had the same isues as everyone else, I couldn't access songs tried turning itunes match on/off etc. and mow mine says 'The shared library “iTunes Match” is not accepting connections at this time. Please try again later.' also.

Same here. The service is obviously down, but apple status console says all Green. A bunch of crap I see.

Yup - just started happening to me too - I am assuming that since they are shooting of an error now that they are finally "acknowledging" that there is an issue. Everything is still working fine on my iPhone/iPad - just not on my PC.

IT APPEARS TO BE WORKING NOW? I posted multiple tweets to Apple's Twitter account, iTunes Twitter account, and to Apple's Facebook pages just 20 minutes ago, and now it's working fine on all my devices. Think someone actually heard me? Sounds like someone realized they kicked the cord out of the wall from the ITM server and plugged it back in! lol

Yep finally fixed for me.

its working your all your devices (computers included)? Or just your handhelds?

Still getting the lightning bolt, worked for 2 seconds

It's improving on all device, but very slowly. My current situation is on iTunes I can see all my music, but it's greyed out. My iOS devices are doing the whole 'loading iTunes Match, blue progress bar'. iPhone has just finished as we speak, all my music is there, no artwork though currently.

^similar to above, it worked on iTunes, now it's displaying the lighting bolt cloud animation.

My MacBook Pro and Windows desktop are both updating now, as in no lightening bolt through the cloud.

Also, for anyone who had Match functioning on a device today and were worried about the playcounts syncing, the update my iPhone did around 815am seemed to proprogate and update just fine. Will have to see what happens later when it updates again and tomorrow when it updates again.

****, i'm still getting a lightning bolt.

None of my 22.000+ songs are greyed out, but those songs still in the cloud will not play.