Q: I use my aol email to log in. When I try to log in it does not give me any option to convert my user name.

Ok I keep getting an email from itunes and it says i need to convert my aol username to an apple id. I use my email address as my user id and my email address is an aol one. When I try to log into itunes it doesn't give me the option to convert my user name to an apple id. do I still need to convert? Will I not be allowed to use an aol email at all? I'm confused. I haven't been given he option to sign in using AOL in years I just use the email address and a different password from the email.