finally got the ansible droplet info to work right its in conf.j2 now

playbooks/mpdf.conf.j2

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ music_directory     "nfs://example.com/path/to/your/music/"
 
 database {
     plugin "proxy" 
-    host "" 
+    host "{{ droplets.data[0].networks.v4[0].ip_address }}" 
 #    host "142.93.181.29"
     port "8888"
     password "password"

playbooks/mpdf.yaml

@@ -42,9 +42,9 @@
         oauth_token: "{{ lookup('ansible.builtin.env', 'DO_API_TOKEN') }}"
         name: mpdb1
       register: droplets
-    - name: Print return information from the previous task
-      ansible.builtin.debug:
-        msg :  "{{ droplets.data[0].networks.v4[0].ip_address }}"
+#   - name: Print return information from the previous task
+      #ansible.builtin.debug:
+      # msg :  "{{ droplets.data[0].networks.v4[0].ip_address }}"
     - name: Install mpdf on hosts
       apt:
         name: mpd