Panasonic portable player will not play, just sits

The clicking sound you are hearing is the laser unit, it slides back and fourth on a track pushed by gears.
Have you dropped it or bumped it at all ?

That tends to be the cause but sometimes is just a defect in the product itself. It's not moving back and fourth so the laser cannot read the disk.

There is little you can do to fix it, If you try to force the laser back and fourth (you can see it when you open the lid and remove a cd) it will only damage it more. You will have to break down and buy a new one sorry.

Good luck, hope this shed some light on the issue. Thank you for coming by fixya!