Songs in iCloud not showing in iTunes library

Hi, Michael, thanks for responding.

Unfortunately, I do have iTunes Match enabled in iTunes as you suggested and my computer is authorized. The funny thing now is that the songs that I do have in my library presently, most of which are indeed already uploaded to iCloud via iTunes Match, are now showing as "Exceeded Limit" when I turn on the iCloud Status via the View menu. So it's showing that NONE of my songs are in iCloud when in fact I know most of them are as I have exceeded the 25,000 limit! No matter what I do, I cannot get the songs that are in iCloud but NOT in my library to show with the little Cloud and download arrow icon. So basically, iTunes Match is useless right now. I do have it turned on and it says it is gathering information about my library, but it never seems to finish the sequence. I'm really frustrated and not sure what to do next!

I have over 25K tracks in my music collection. Not all of them are in my library and only 25K are uploaded to iTunes Match. What I am not seeing now are the songs that I've previously uploaded to the cloud in iTunes Match and then deleted from my library. When I did this previously, those songs still appeared in my iTunes list with the Cloud download icon beside them so I could download them from the Cloud whenver I wanted to. What I am NOT seeing now is those songs with that icon, it's like they don't exist any longer. I read a bit more this afternoon and removed/restored my library xml file to iTunes and started Match again. It is still cranking through the first step, so not sure it will work. But right now, all of my songs, even the ones i KNOW I uploaded to the cloud via Match previously, are showing in the list with the dotted cloud icon, meaning, I think, that Match thinks they are NOT yet uploaded to the cloud when in fact I know that they are.

This defies logic and I have tried to explain as clearly as possible, but if you are confused, so am i! lol Thank you for continuing to read and possibly offer assistance.

Thanks for your reply but I don't believe this is the problem. When I hit the 25K limit, iTunes Match simply would not load any additional songs and those in excess of the 25K were in my library but with the dotted cloud icon showing they were not uploaded via iTunes Match.

I simply cannot see AT ALL any of my previously loaded (to the Cloud via Match) songs that I deleted from my library after they were uploaded. Previously, when I had deleted those songs, they still showed up in my library listing but with the Cloud/Arrow Download icon. Now they do not show at all.

Why, when I am only at the 25K limit for songs in the Cloud, do I have to delete any of them to make some of them show up again? That doesn't make sense to me. Previously, my library contained roughly 30K songs, 25K of which were uploaded/matched via iTunes Match and the other 5K not uploaded but still in my library. It's only the ones that I previously uploaded to the Cloud then subsequently deleted from my library that I cannot see.

It's like Match needs a re-boot or something for me to be able to see all the tracks I've uploaded to it. I've tried several approaches, to include starting/restarting Match, installing new iTunes from scratch and deleting, re-importing my library. Nothing works.

Hm. I had more than 25k tracks in my library for months without an issue. Only ever had 25k in the cloud but more in my local iTunes library. Now Apple is limiting the number of songs I can have in my library? My 160 GB iPod can hold more than 25k songs so why would Apple seek to limit how many songs I can have in iTunes If only 25k of them are in the cloud? This cannot be right. If it is then I am giving up iTunes Match as it is worthless to me.