ICloud – Unable to delete songs from iTunes Match – they always come back

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I'm so lost here. I imported an audio book from CD into my iTunes library. The genre was wrong on one of the 5 CDs ("Spoken & Audio") instead of "Audio Book". So I changed it.
iTunes Match did its job, uploaded the titles and messed everything up. I ended up with all the titles being duplicated, one per genre.
In the end I just wanted to get rid of the files. I deleted the titles from iTunes 11 and checked in Findes that they are gone for good. I was also ask if I wanted to delete the titles in iCloud too. I agreed.
Then iTunes Match updated itself and everything was back. I retried – same issue. The titles come back with an iCloud icon.

How the heck can I get rid of the titles and restart?

Best Answer

Its a pain, but you want to toggle iTunes Match and delete them again.

In iTunes:

  1. Click the Store menu and select "Turn Off iTunes Match"
  2. Click the Store menu and select "Turn On iTunes Match"
  3. Delete Songs
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