I just subscribed to iTunes Match, and I like it. $28 annual fee. All my music (about 15,000 songs) went up in the cloud. Now I can stream my songs on my iPad and iPhone. It works well. Not all of my songs got uploaded - about 1,000 short.
This is good if my iPod ever fails, as they won't be making them anymore.
What I can't figure out is how to get the songs to show up in iTunes on my work computer. It seems like you are supposed to be able to do that.
https://support.apple.com/en-ca/HT4913
https://support.apple.com/en-ca/HT204146