diff --git a/docs/story-data-format.md b/docs/story-data-format.md
index a7360de..7d18f45 100644
--- a/docs/story-data-format.md
+++ b/docs/story-data-format.md
@@ -332,6 +332,7 @@ Other keys are not read.
 | `sampleRate`, `channels`, `samples` | As in a live's [sound layers](data-format.md#sounds-audiolive-audiojson): `samples` counts frames at `sampleRate`, without encoder padding. |
 | `loopStart`, `loopEnd` | Optional: loop points in sample frames. |
 | `encoderDelay` | Optional, AAC only: the priming samples at the start of the stream, handled as for a live's layers. |
+| `categories` | Optional: the CRI category names the cue plays in, from its cue sheet (`["Voice", "VoiceConfig"]`). The cue plays on the bus of the first of `Bgm`, `Se` and `Voice` among them; without it, on the bus of its `-Sound` row's `_category`. The row's `_category` still decides which sounds a stop of a category and a BGM crossfade reach. |
 
 A sound id of a row (`BgmID`, `SeID`, `VoiceIDs`) resolves through `episode.json`: `sounds[id]` gives the cue name (`_cueName`) and
 the cue sheet id (`_soundCueSheetID`), `cuesheets[<cue sheet id>]._cueSheetName` the directory `story.json` `audio` names. Lip sync reads the
diff --git a/docs/story.md b/docs/story.md
index f2ba2a4..edb5958 100644
--- a/docs/story.md
+++ b/docs/story.md
@@ -253,3 +253,8 @@ story player in their host screen ([story-simple.md](story-simple.md)).
 
 Behaviour of the engine (Unity, URP, CRI) that the game's code does not show is marked `ENGINE:` in the sources, as in
 the rest of the player ([fidelity.md](fidelity.md)).
+
+- Which volume governs a sound: the CRI category volumes (music, sound effect, voice) reach a cue through the
+  categories its cue sheet puts it in (`categories` of the cue in `cues.json`), not through the `_category` of its
+  `-Sound` row; the row's `_category` decides which sounds a stop of a category and a BGM crossfade reach. The voices
+  of the linkstory episodes ADV 10579–10608 are rows of category Bgm in cue sheets of category Voice.
diff --git a/scripts/validate-data.mjs b/scripts/validate-data.mjs
index 765673b..24aa36b 100644
--- a/scripts/validate-data.mjs
+++ b/scripts/validate-data.mjs
@@ -940,6 +940,7 @@ class Story extends Chart {
         if (extOf(c.file) !== WAVE_EXT[m.audioFormat]) this.err(cp, `${cue}: ${c.file} does not match audioFormat ${m.audioFormat}`);
         if ((c.loopStart === undefined) !== (c.loopEnd === undefined)) this.err(cp, `${cue}: loopStart and loopEnd must both be set or both absent`);
         else if (c.loopStart !== undefined && !(c.loopStart < c.loopEnd && c.loopEnd <= c.samples)) this.err(cp, `${cue}: loop points outside the waveform`);
+        if (c.categories !== undefined && !(Array.isArray(c.categories) && c.categories.every((x) => typeof x === "string"))) this.err(cp, `${cue}: categories must be an array of strings`);
         if (c.encoderDelay !== undefined && (extOf(c.file) !== "m4a" || !Number.isInteger(c.encoderDelay) || c.encoderDelay < 0)) this.err(cp, `${cue}: encoderDelay ${c.encoderDelay}`);
         const p = `${dir}/${c.file}`;
         if (!has(this.common, p)) { this.err(cp, `${cue}: ${p} is not a common file`); continue; }
diff --git a/src/engine/audio.js b/src/engine/audio.js
index b1a3680..3114d55 100644
--- a/src/engine/audio.js
+++ b/src/engine/audio.js
@@ -22,8 +22,20 @@ export const SOUND_CATEGORY = { Bgm: 0, Se: 1, Voice: 2, NotesSe: 3, All: 9999 }
 // buffer (rounded by `round`). At equal rates the count is n itself. Times in seconds (loop points, start offsets, the
 // audio-synced time) do not depend on the rate.
 export const framesAt = (n, from, to, round = Math.round) => (from === to ? n : round(n * to / from));
+export const SOUND_CATEGORY_NAME = { 0: "Bgm", 1: "Se", 2: "Voice" };        // SoundCategory enum names
 export const SOUND_BUS_GAIN = { 0: 0.7, 1: 1.0, 2: 1.0 };
 
+// The bus of a cue. ENGINE: the game never attaches a category to a sound (SoundCache.CreateSoundSource and
+// SoundPlayer.Play call no CriAtomExPlayer.SetCategory), so the CRI category volumes reach a cue through the
+// categories its sheet puts it in (cues.json `categories`: the CRI category names of the cue in the ACB), whatever
+// category its -Sound row names. The row's category decides which sounds StopAll and the BGM crossfade reach
+// (SoundInfo.Category). A cue without categories plays on its row's.
+export const busOf = (meta, category) => {
+  for (const name of (meta && meta.categories) || [])
+    for (const k of Object.keys(SOUND_CATEGORY_NAME)) if (SOUND_CATEGORY_NAME[k] === name) return Number(k);
+  return category;
+};
+
 // Fwk.Sound.SoundVolume over the CRI category volumes. SoundVolumeSettings gives each category name its
 // DefaultVolume; SoundManager.Boot calls ChangeVolume("All", 1.0), so every category starts at DefaultVolume.
 //   ChangeVolume: "All" (SoundCategoryNames.All) -> ChangeVolumeAll (every settings entry);
@@ -37,7 +49,6 @@ export const SOUND_BUS_GAIN = { 0: 0.7, 1: 1.0, 2: 1.0 };
 //   ChangeConfigVolume (the app's volume options): "All" -> every settings name's "<name>Config" = DefaultVolume x v;
 //     any other name -> CriAtomExCategory.SetVolume(name + "Config", v); RestoreConfigVolume = ChangeConfigVolume(1).
 export const SOUND_VOLUME_SETTINGS = { Bgm: 0.7, Se: 1.0, Voice: 1.0, LiveBgm: 1.0, LiveSe: 1.0, LiveNotesSe: 1.0, LiveVoice: 1.0 };
-export const SOUND_CATEGORY_NAME = { 0: "Bgm", 1: "Se", 2: "Voice" };        // SoundCategory enum names
 export class SoundCategoryVolumes {
   constructor(onChange) {
     this.onChange = onChange;               // (name, volume) after a CRI category volume changed
@@ -247,7 +258,7 @@ export class Audio {
       forceFadeIn = true;
       for (const i of [...this.playing.values()]) if (i.category === SOUND_CATEGORY.Bgm) this._stopInfo(i, true, crossFade);
     }
-    const bus = this.buses[c.category];
+    const bus = this.buses[busOf(entry.meta, c.category)];
     if (!bus) throw new Error(`sound category ${c.category}`);
     const info = { id: this.nextId++, soundId, category: c.category, cue: c, meta: entry.meta, buf: entry.buf,
                    fade: 0, fadeStart: 0, fadeDur: 0, finished: false, stopped: false, onFinished: [],
diff --git a/tests/unit/engine-audio.test.mjs b/tests/unit/engine-audio.test.mjs
index 2671127..ae03899 100644
--- a/tests/unit/engine-audio.test.mjs
+++ b/tests/unit/engine-audio.test.mjs
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 // a voice played time-stretched and the movie bus of the videos' sound; engine/timestretch.js on synthetic PCM.
 import assert from "node:assert/strict";
 import { test } from "node:test";
-import { Audio, playbackSpeed } from "../../src/engine/audio.js";
+import { Audio, SOUND_CATEGORY, busOf, playbackSpeed } from "../../src/engine/audio.js";
 import { timeStretch } from "../../src/engine/timestretch.js";
 
 const F = Math.fround;
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ const fakeContext = () => {
   };
   return {
     sampleRate: 48000, currentTime: 0, state: "running", destination: {},
-    createGain() { return { gain: param(1), connect(n) { return n; } }; },
+    createGain() { return { gain: param(1), to: null, connect(n) { this.to = n; return n; } }; },
     createMediaElementSource(el) {
       const n = { el, to: null, connect(x) { n.to = x; return x; }, disconnect() { n.to = null; } };
       this.media.push(n);
@@ -65,6 +65,28 @@ test("option volumes multiply the category bus; All scales by DefaultVolume, a n
   assert.ok(Number.isNaN(a.getOptionVolume("Nope")));
 });
 
+test("a cue plays on the bus of its sheet's CRI categories; its row's category decides what stopAll reaches", () => {
+  const ctx = fakeContext(), loop = { time: 0 };
+  const cue = { sheet: "s", cue: "c", category: SOUND_CATEGORY.Bgm, row: {} };     // a voice cue whose row says Bgm
+  const a = new Audio(() => cue, loop, { context: ctx });
+  const put = (categories) => a.buffers.set("s/c", { buf: ctx.buffer(1, 48000, 48000),
+    meta: { sampleRate: 48000, samples: 48000, ...(categories ? { categories } : {}) } });
+  put(["Voice", "VoiceConfig"]);
+  const voice = a.get(a.play(1, { crossFade: 0 }));
+  put(null);
+  const row = a.get(a.play(1, { crossFade: 0 }));
+  assert.deepEqual([voice.gain.to === a.buses[SOUND_CATEGORY.Voice], row.gain.to === a.buses[SOUND_CATEGORY.Bgm]], [true, true]);
+  assert.deepEqual([voice.category, row.category], [SOUND_CATEGORY.Bgm, SOUND_CATEGORY.Bgm]);
+  a.stopAll(SOUND_CATEGORY.Bgm);
+  assert.deepEqual([a.isPlaying(voice.id), a.isPlaying(row.id)], [false, false]);
+  a.setOptionVolume("Bgm", 0);
+  put(["Voice", "VoiceConfig"]);
+  a.play(1, { crossFade: 0 });
+  assert.equal(a.buses[SOUND_CATEGORY.Voice].gain.value, 1);
+  assert.equal(busOf({ categories: ["Other", "Se"] }, SOUND_CATEGORY.Bgm), SOUND_CATEGORY.Se);
+  assert.equal(busOf({ categories: ["Other"] }, SOUND_CATEGORY.Voice), SOUND_CATEGORY.Voice);
+});
+
 test("a video's sound: on the movie bus at the movie volume, which no category or option volume changes", () => {
   const ctx = fakeContext();
   const a = new Audio(() => null, { time: 0 }, { context: ctx });