I know the OP said iTunes Match wasn't working for him because iTunes would change his meta data, but I use it for streaming my own and purchased content (works great) and also have changed the meta data on a bunch of albums. It works really well 99% of the time.
Yeah, he is right that for some albums, iTunes does mess up my meta data, but at least for me, it's the exception instead of the rule.
Would prefer to use a different solution than that from a huge corporate behemoth, but it works so well, isn't really worth it for me to switch.
It works pretty well, I use it but its not a great experience navigating and searching on the iphone.
I like to shuffle, then jump to an artist album if I come across one I haven't heard in a while. You think clicking the artists name would bring you to the artist, but it brings you the album, then there is no way to get to all music by that artist. Its not great. Searching seems to be a random chance it will show you "Apple music" and offer a subscription, even though I've turned that off in the preferences..
My time is short, I only have one mac left to load music onto the cloud service.
I used to use iTunes Match. It'll change more than just metadata, I've had instances where album tracks were swapped out for their clean versions. I've dropped it in favor of a self hosted version I can ensure won't muck with my music.
Would prefer to use a different solution than that from a huge corporate behemoth, but it works so well, isn't really worth it for me to switch.