Recently Played form iPod to iTunes Manually

Hi there.
I was wondering how I can merge the recently played file from my iPod to iTunes.
So that I have the recently played iPod tracks together with the recently played iTunes (but not the other way)?
I'm using the manually sync because I don't want to sync anything else...
example:
Listening to song A,B,C on my iPod
Listening to song B on iTunes
The recently played on iPod showes now: A,b,c and iTunes:b
now I'd like to update the iTunes recently played so it'll show: a,2xb,c
I hope you know what I mean.

I'm using the manually sync because I don't want to sync anything else...
Confused...
In iTunes, create a playlist of songs and Automatically sync only that playlist.
Next time you plug in, the playcount, rating and such will sync up.

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