<p>In the philosophy of auditory experience, it is commonly accepted that hearing sounds and their sources are related perceptual occurrences. The paper evaluates three widespread accounts of such a relationship, according to which sounds are respectively auditorily experienced as properties of their sources, parts of their sources, or caused by their sources. These approaches are found inadequate, insofar as they are unable to capture the specific perceptual dependencies that characterize our auditory experiences of sounds and their sources. It is argued that we can accommodate these dependencies by accepting that sources are perceived in virtue of an operation of perceptual categorization applied to the sounds we hear. Finally, this proposal is defended from the common objection that it cannot accommodate the cognitive role played by our auditory experience of sound sources.</p>