I am running Amarok 2.8.0 on Gentoo, but for a long time it does not work for me. It hangs just after start. I see main panel and "Fetching Magnatune.com front page" could be seen in task area.

I have tried also starting Amarok from command line:

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amarok -d --nofork

but results are the same.

Only such errors could be seen:

[ERROR__] [APG::PresetModel] Can not open "/home/user/.kde4/share/apps/amarok/playlistgenerator.xml"
[ERROR__] "Could not load local playlist file /home/user/.kde4/share/apps/amarok/current.xspf!"
[ERROR__] [DynamicModel] Can not read "/home/user/.kde4/share/apps/amarok/dynamic.xml"

End line:
amarok: END__: void Collections::ScriptableServiceQueryMaker::fetchTracks()

I have tried on newly created account - the same problem. Please, help me! Thank you!

if the program can not use the files in those folders, maybe the permissions are wrong? Please make sure all files in /home/user/.kde4/share/ have user permissions, especially write permissions, as Amarok needs to write files in these folders.
As a second check you should make sure you have all the KDE4 libraries Amarok depends on, I presume you are running Plasma 5.x already.
And last: please make sure you have your database installed correctly, you need an embedded mariadb by default in Gentoo last I can remember.

Mamarok wrote:if the program can not use the files in those folders, maybe the permissions are wrong? Please make sure all files in /home/user/.kde4/share/ have user permissions, especially write permissions, as Amarok needs to write files in these folders.
As a second check you should make sure you have all the KDE4 libraries Amarok depends on, I presume you are running Plasma 5.x already.
And last: please make sure you have your database installed correctly, you need an embedded mariadb by default in Gentoo last I can remember.

Thank you for answer.

1. User has correct rights to .kde4, and all files below, especially .kde4/share/apps/amarok is owned and rwx to the user.
2. I have checked it with:

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$ ldd `which amarok`

And all libraries are available and readable.
2a. Yes, I have Plasma 5.6.3.
3. I have all database files on place: .kde4/share/apps/amarok/mysqle and connected to it successfully starting mysqld as mentioned here: https://community.kde.org/Amarok/Community/MySQL#Migrating_from_MySQL_Embedded_to_MySQL_Server

4. I have tried Amarok on Opensuse. In Gentoo, last debug line (before hang) is:

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amarok: END__: void Collections::ScriptableServiceQueryMaker::fetchTracks() [Took: 0.009s]

and on Opensuse, after it I see:

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QModelIndex(-1,-1,0x0,QObject(0x0) )

Maybe Qt libraries are incompatible? I have versions: 4.8.7 and 5.5.1.

No, the Qt libraries from 4.8.7 should be perfectly fine. Since you are using Gentoo, could you try the 2.9 beta release (aka 2.8.90)? it is several hundred commits ahead of 2.8.0 and should work much better.

As for your database: Gentoo uses MariaDB since several years now, no need to install MySQL alongside it, if you did the migration back then, there shouldn't be a problem and Amarok works with MariaDB without problems.