Saving songs to "on-the-road" favorites file...

Can this be done? As I recall, the older iPods had a feature where if you held down one of the buttons you could save favorite songs to a special "on-the-road" favorites folder and I believe the next time you docked your iPod it would save this favorites folder back to iTunes.
I have a video iPod (5th Generation).
Thanks,
Ben

Yes, it's called an on the go playlist.
That playlist will then be transferred back to the computer if you save it on the iPod and have auto sync selected for the transfer of songs.
On the go playlists are not transferred to iTunes if you have the iPod set to manually manage the content.

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