Convert WMA to MP3 on Mac OS X for Free

This guide is for, on a Mac running Mac OS X:

convert audio files from one format to another
convert WMA files to MP3 format

Switch - download
Switch is free and allows converting from WMA to MP3. Switch Plus is available for a fee and allows converting between additional formats. This is the only program I was able to find for free to convert WMA files to MP3s on Mac OS X. One disadvantage is that it does not preserve ID3 tags.

Things That Didn't Work

Audion - although suggested elsewhere around the web and now made free it crashed on both an Intel and PPC Mac running 10.5.2.
Audacity - an opensource program for this purpose that required installing additional libraries to export to MP3.
iSquint - this said my WMA files were in the wrong frame rate.
EasyWMA - the site doesn't mention the demo's limitation of only converting the first 12 seconds of your audio file.
ffmpegX - yikes, 50MB download and the need to install additional libraries. This wasn't for me.

Written: 4/1/08
Optimized: 7/11/08
Jonathan Berger
E-mail berger.jon@gmail.com for comments or updates