A movie sound clip could be a part of a song from a movie, a dialogue or any background music. With the advent of cellular phones, especially the new smart phones with capabilities to play music, movie sound clips have become increasingly popular.

Movie sound clips have become the most popular way of initiating a conversation, as they are often used as ring tones and message alerts on cell phones by many people. Apart from this, movie sound clips serve a number of other purposes as well. They can be used to provide short background music in presentations and are also used in advertisements, jingles and other audio visual communication.

Movie sound clips can be stored in a number of formats such as WAV, MP3 and MPEG. In case of cellular phones, these files can be stored in the WAV format. However, most of the phones these days also support the MP3 format. In case the phone does not support either of these formats, the clip can be stored in the AMR format. The memory occupied by these clips depends both on format and length of the clips.

Movie sound clips are easily available through several paid and free websites on the Internet. The latest sound clips are usually available at paid sites. The charges are usually nominal while the older clips are generally available free of charge.

In case of cellular phones, a number of service providers also provide the facility of downloading sound clips directly on the handsets. To download a clip, the consumer usually has to send a text message, mentioning the code of the clip to be downloaded and the desired clip is then sent to his phone by the service provider. A small charge is levied for the service. Internet enabled phones are able to download clips directly from web sites.