Could someone tell me how to setup and playa sound in openAL in DevC++ or point me in the direction of an easier sound library.

Check out the source for the first project on my site:
http://www.eng.uwaterloo.ca/~rramraj/resume_site/

Cheers,
- llvllatrix

fmod and bass are quick and dirty to use.
Just google them and you will find what you are looking for.

OpenAL is not hard to use. I think you would get better answers in the "Alternative Libraries" forum though. They know more about it and it has been too long for me to remember the link to good tutorials.

Take a look at the tutorials for OpenAL at DevMaster. You can get the OpenAL DevPak here. Otherwise I'd say you can take a look into using FMod for Dev-CPP. You can download the FMod DevPak here.