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My preferred way to fix this is to actually implement "album artist" tag handling; the user then must enter an album artist on every album that they want to mark as compilation. This also solves the problem that some albums actually have a named album artist (e.g. the composer). That way, whether they enter an artist involved in the whole album or simply "Various Artists" is not important for the player.
The problem is that a lot of tag formats don't have a standard field for this. The most thorough list I can find is the one used by PicardQt (see [1]). BMPx seems to stick to this, and my limited research shows that it's likely a superset of what some other players (iTunes, WMP, Amarok) use.
If I remember correctly, Ex Falso has an "albumartist" tag field. I'd be interested to know whether this works with other apps.
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