ITunes app starts playing on its own

Hi! I am running an iPad mini 3 as I just upgraded from an iPad mini two weeks ago. I kept both iPads up-to-date with all software from Apple. But just before I upgraded, both the iPad mini and now my new iPad mini 3  started playing iTunes music with the app closed completely! I can be driving in my car with a car stereo that is not Bluetooth listening to music and all of a sudden my iPad, that is laying on the passenger seat while I drive starts playing music!!! It can either be from my library or the ITunes radio. So I hit the home button twice so that I can find the app and slide it up to close it and it's not even open!!!!   I have to actually open iTunes so that I can slide it up and close it so it will stop playing music. But randomly it will start playing music again!!  To me this sounds like a big bug. I am running the latest version of iTunes.
I spent an hour and a half on the phone with an Apple support rep a week ago Monday. In the end the only thing she could suggest was that I have my Bluetooth option turned on in Settings on the iPad and that was why it started playing my music . However I turned Bluetooth off which was linked to a Bluetooth speaker on my visor for phone calls. I also turned off the Motorola Bluetooth and even with it off, the music just randomly starts playing like it has a poltergeist affiliation!!     
I was trying to find a place to report this bug but I'm just gonna post it here so if anyone has any suggestions I'd love to hear them!  I have upgraded to  IOS 8.3 now and it's still doing it.  It's really really annoying! I can't even hear my Waze app reports on traffic  because the music drowns it out.
Thanks!
Jeannie
P.S.  Another thing that I spent an hour on a separate call with support for was that when you slide the control section up from the bottom of the home screen there was no lock whatsoever to change the orientation of my camera. It kept staying in portrait mode and would not take a picture horizontally!!  They have changed the location and how you set your lock rotation for horizontal versus vertical. While on that one hour support call it was actually me that finally figured out the issue.
In General under Settings there is an option for the slide switch. The options are lock rotation or mute. Mine was on mute because one would think if you have mute selected that means you're not going to hear any notifications or if you're using the phone app you're not going to hear the phone ring. So I did not want my sounds muted  so I selected lock rotation. In hind sight it actually says the slide lock will mute.  But it can easily be assumed to novices such as myself with Apple products (because I'm new to them) that it's going to mute all sounds when that option is checked whether or not you slide the switch. While on that phone call with support I selected mute instead and then my camera finally rotated the way I wanted when I went to take a picture. I think there should be a better explanation for users as to what  mute versus lock rotation will actually do.  And my sounds were not muted because I didn't slide the slide switch on the top of the iPad.  It even didn't make sense to the support rep!!! Just FYI

If you were listening to the iheartradio app when you received the call then it will pause the music during the call and resume playing when the call is finished.

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