Music app scrambled

My music app has been getting scrambled after playing for 40 minutes or so. Music just stops mid-song, then songs start skipping around and playing a few seconds of each, when I press pause or close and reopen app, it continues to play random songs (just a few seconds) skipping around. Stopping the app doesn't work, songs start playing again suddenly and jumping around - without pushing play. Songs also speed up really fast while playing and what's being played doesn't match the song displayed. They also suddenly stop and start, while not pushing anything. After not using app for some time (check problem again next day) app plays fine, initially. This has occurred three times recently and I can't fix the problem once it starts acting funny, just have to stop listening to music. I don't want to lose my whole library of songs by resetting phone, is there a fix to keep library and playlists? Also, voice control seems to randomly initiate before or during the music app malfunction, without me touching phone.

I'm having same problem.
First of all when downloading from cloud and deciding to delete some tracks I found I couldn't.
Did a wipe of all data in music app to clear all music (only had a small amount).
Downloaded only what I wanted this time, no problem.
But as many are saying album tracks are not in track order.
Reading the advice on here I tried the on/off thing.  This only rearranged the tracks for the album I was playing at switch off.
I then tried the reset all settings as I read on here.  This worked but (a) a bit of pain going through settings I'd changed cos I did change quite a few from original settings,  (b) I have two extra tracks downloaded now and I can' delete them.
Incredibly frustrating, not exactly a cheap machine and ordering stuff must surely be a basic operation for a computer in this day and age.  Probably a bug but needs fixing quick if public to keep the faith in high quality output from Apple, especially after Maps fiasco last year.
I am using an iPad third generation 16gb wi-fi only.  And I should point out that downloading the music to my iphone 5c 16gb (3G) via wi-fi, same houses, same account, etc, worked fine with all albums in order.
So maybe just an ipad thing?

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