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Streaming music applications allow their users to listen to music that they did not collect, making music collecting voluntary for the first time in the history of music consumption. Using a questionnaire (n = 370), we aimed to measure streaming collection size and its relations to other variables. Results showed a large variability in streaming collection size, with a median of only 200 songs. Furthermore, most participants drastically reduced their collection size when moving to streaming technology. Our results nevertheless found extensive evidence for the merits of streaming collections, including (a) collection size positively correlated with both listening hours and listening enjoyment; (b) participants wanted to listen to their favorite music for most of their streaming listening time; (c) young participants collected almost twice as many streaming songs as older participants, indicating that collecting is not an old habit; and …