iTunes Match issue

Are you downloading them to your phone or streaming them? I think their new streaming feature is optimized for matches since they have complete control of the file format but for uploaded files it might be different.

If you're just playing them then it is just streaming the music. It doesn't download the file when you play it now. You have to click the cloud icon to download it to your phone.

 

This is not true. It is downloading them just like it always has.

 

also when you turn iTunes match on, it automatically deletes all your songs on your iPhone and forces you to manually download each album from iCloud...extremely annoying!

 

Funny, cause mine doesn't download unless I press the button now. It was stated as a feature of iOS 6:
http://www.macrumors.com/2012/06/13...orts-both-streaming-and-downloading-of-music/

 

That video only shows two things; they removed the iCloud icon for individual songs and turning off iTunes Match deletes all the music.

Either they are testing pure streaming for some people and not others or it's simply not streaming as we all jumped into believing because the songs are most definitely downloading for me every time I play them. I know this because song count on device goes up when I "stream" a song, they can then be replayed while in airplane mode, deselecting "show all music" doesn't get rid of songs a just "streamed", indicating they are actually downloaded to the device, and the iCloud download button vanishes if I play all songs in an album.

But this video was a rush to judgement and doesn't prove anything.

 

Who stated it as a feature, Apple or a rumours website? It still downloads the music when you start a track in iTunes Match. To test it make sure you have no music downloaded on your phone, start a track (and let it finish) and then check Settings -> General -> Usage -> Storage. There will be a Music entry.
As others have stated all they have done is removed the download icon from individual tracks.