Audio Converter for the Mac?

I need to convert FLAC to Mp3. Do you have any suggestions? I have heard the program "Switch" is good.

I've not used Switch to have an opinion, McFLAC does the job fine
http://mac.softpedia.com/get/Audio/MacFLAC.shtml
http://www.simplehelp.net/2006/07/15/how-to-convert-flac-files-to-mp3-using-os-x /
SourceForge also have a Project underway called xACT
http://sourceforge.net/projects/xact

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