Can't add to "Purchased on iPhone" playlist

I tried searching for topics relating specifically to the iPhone purchases playlist but couldn't find anything. Here's the issue. For reasons unimportant to my question, my iTunes Library was wiped out. I've added all the songs and really all I've lost are some ratings and metadata. My Purchased playlist is back to how it was. The Purchased playlist on the iPhone contains all the songs that I've bought. However, since my Library was cleaned out, the synced version of the playlist on my computer is empty. I've since bought one song on my iPhone and hoped that it would copy everything over again, but no. Only that one song appears. For whatever reason, iTunes allows adding to the Purchased playlist but not to the "Purchased on iPhone" playlist. So, what can I do? I don't want to lose the playlist and for that reason I haven't risked turning on automatic syncing (it's been on manual since I got the phone). Thanks.

Nevermind. I was trying to drag songs from the iPhone to the "Purchased on iPhone" playlist. Dragging from the Library and manually recreating it worked.

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