How do I diagnosis what process is open up iTunes? Something is randomly opening iTunes by itself?

After installed a couple of "upgrades" yesterday, I am getting odd behavior in iTunes. It launches randomly, by itself and then randomly starts playing music from a playlist. I don't have an iPod/iPad plugged in. I assume one of the upgraded applications is doing something to call iTunes.
How can I look at a log and see what called iTunes?

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