However, I want to store the music uncompressed... (And no, I don't want to install extra software modules like LAME to convert my uncompressed music to "high quality MP3!")
Then you don't want AAC anyway. And if you've encoded your music with AAC, then you've compressed it. AAC is a compressed file, similar to MP3, merely a different codec.
If you want to use a lossless format supported by iTunes, you'll probably have to use Apple Lossless (is that what you meant? Not AAC?), which I presume is supported by iTunes. But if you're willing to accept compression with AAC, there isn't any reason to reject it with MP3. Just find an encoding bit-rate that is acceptable to you. Installing the iTunes-LAME program in iTunes is trivial.
Why doesn't the Squeezebox simply support AAC in firmware?
"Simply"? Implementing a codec in firmware is probably not a trivial task. And since AAC is a lossy codec just as MP3 is, there isn't a lot of reason to do it, especially with MP3 being a more universally supported encoding method.
As for Apple Lossless, it is not widely used. I'm a big Apple/Mac fan and user, but I use FLAC, not Apple Lossless.
Basically, I conclude that there isn't enough demand and other tasks are higher priority.
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