ITunes just starts playing randomly.

Hi, first time this happened. Recently iTunes just starts playing by itself randomly even hours after I stop playing it. Sometimes I am doing something else and sometimes the computer is just sitting there idle and it starts playing. iTunes is always already open in the background. This anomaly coincides with another glitch that I have been having lately, where I have a lot of trouble connecting blue tooth for my bose mini sound link II. It eventually always does connect but sometime I have to connect and reconnect again and again sometimes for five or more minutes.
Any thoughts?

I think I may have fixed the problem. After trying loads of other ideas (new user account, trashing plists, etc., none of which had any effect) I disconnected all of my USB cables and hubs and reconnected just the essentials. I also unplugged and re-plugged the audio-out cable to my amp/speakers. After this I relaunched iTunes and haven't had a recurrence yet (going on 6 hours.) My fingers are figuratively crossed.

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