How to get un"Match"ed songs onto iPhone

[seajay96]

So, I have a MBP13 with iTunes 11 and an iPhone 4s with iOS 6.0.1 and iTunes Match enabled. For Christmas, I got a CD from my girlfriend of her and her kids singing (absolutely beautiful singers ). How do I get this onto my iPhone? I've been trying a bunch of different things and searching but my Google-fu must be weak today, I can't find anything that works.

Thoughts? Ideas?

Thanks in advance.

[Feed Me]

Just import the CD into iTunes, and iTunes match will automatically upload the tracks to the cloud, and they'll become available on your iPhone.

[seajay96]

Originally Posted by Feed Me

Just import the CD into iTunes, and iTunes match will automatically upload the tracks to the cloud, and they'll become available on your iPhone.

Thanks for the help but, I already tried that and it didn't work.

Turns out, even though iTunes will play a CD full of .m4a files, it will not import without first converting to .mp3

I changed the import settings from .aac to .mp3, imported the songs, updated album/artist info and sent them to iCloud...all is well now.

Now, to see if I can't get a custom picture as album artwork